One SIN that gets us all

Morning All

I remember sitting in Church and the pastor read from the bible and it stated
"There is one sin that beseeches us all"

I sat there thinking what could that be, I started racking my mind.
Could it be LUST? No because I know people who don't struggle with this sin
Maybe it is LOVE of Money? Nope because I know people who are not bothered about money at all
It got to be ANGER? Nah not that either because some people are so laid back they fall asleep before they had chance to get angry.

WHAT CAN IT BE? The answer is




That's right, the answer was doubt (Lack of Faith). At some point every person on the earth has struggled with this one.
DOUBTING - Am I with the right person in this relationship
DOUBTING - I don't deserve to get that pay-rise or promotion
DOUBTING - I'm not good enough to go through university
DOUBTING - The business idea I have will never work
What ever it is we have all had times when we have struggled with a LACK OF FAITH (Doubt)

I had mine this morning, I woke up same time but had this feeling of FEAR and DOUBT come over me, concerning the following

Can I raise the finances to live in Kenilworth and live in a home that I personally dream of
Can Gen-Hope become the social enterprise that goes on to be a blessing to young people in the UK
Can we reach our £211'000 qtr target in the Distribution business.

We all these doubts I did the one thing I knew personally I needed to do. GET ON MY KNEES AND PRAY. I never had alot to say I just wanted to hear from God about my situations.  Believe it all not God did speak and he told me to 'BELIEVE' and TRUST in him.

I came out of that time of pray and said you know what WHAT AM I FEARING. I will find a way to resolve any problems that stands in the way of achieving my goals. It might take hard work, it may take longer than I like but it will happen. I just need to continue to build my faith daily and not let DOUBT take a foot hold

On the journey to your goals you will face that enemy of DOUBT. Before you meet him have a plan how you will deal with it. My tool is PRAY what is your?
(You may also like to watch a video about FAITH, we recorded a few months ago and it can only help you on your journey. http://youtu.be/TEWahR-fSko

Have a blessed day people

Denzil

Purpose Filled Life / The Journey: A Time to Reflect

Purpose Filled Life / The Journey: A Time to Reflect: Ecclesiastes 3 v 1 "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" Has your week been a busy one? well ...

9 YEARS MARRIED

Good morning world

This morning I celebrate nine years of marriage, that right nine years of marriage little old me.

Want I wanted to share this morning to get to this point (nine years) has not been easy. Both me and my wife have had our share of problems, arguments, disagreements etc. We had those days we have upset and even hurt one another.

But we decided that we would not quit. When we took our vows it was for life for good and bad. Let me tell there has been days I am sure that my wife has thought what am I doing here. "I AM A LADY, GET ME OUT OF HERE" lol.

Bless her, she held in there and I can state that our marriage has gone from strength to strength, because I have had to learn to change and adapt, more importantly COMPROMISE. Both of us also had to learn to forgive when the other one messed up, we both also had to learn to say sorry. At times it feels like i say SORRY more than her (NOT COUNTING OR NOTHING) Lol

A big factor in achieving this milestone has been learning to appreciate one another for who we are and loving the fact that we are different and we handle things in a different ways at times and that's OK. We also had to learn to be in a partnership and seek out each other strength and roles and praise that. My wife is the carer of the home and the kids and she good at that. I was the bread winner and my role is to take care of the finances. It may have been the other way round that I was the home and kids carer and she was the bread winner, either way it doesn't matter we just learnt who did what best.

Final point I got to share is marriage is a LEARNING CURVE. I understand my wife more know than 11 years ago and I know I will understand her more in another 10 years. Every year you will learn more about that person but also I and my wife have gone to seminars and have marriage disciple to ensure we also learn how to build a great marriage.

So to every one out there starting out in dating my words of encouragement are "if me and my wife can do it, so can you"

Also I know that we live in a society that feels marriage is not important but trust me, marriage has been one of the best things to happen in my life that has allowed me to obtain the success I have so far. When you have someone who loves you, supports you and care for your needs, WHO CAN STOP YOU.

Bless people

Comfort or Thriving

Wow been a long time since I have written on my blog.

But good to be back.

Wanted to to share some important development that a lot of you might relate to.

In the distribution business I am apart of we had some really good success in the last two years even in the midst of all that has been going on in the economy.
In truth if the business stayed the same as it has been for the last two years then we are in a comfortable place (Comfort zone). But not sure if you are anything like me I was getting bored.
The reason being I felt like that I had exhausted my challenges and I was just through the motion, to the point I should do what I needed to be done with my eyes closed and without having to really engage my mind. I was also bored of speaking about last year successes

To some this might seem cool but I am of the mindset that if your not going forward your going backwards. No one person, or business standstill it is either moving forwards or backwards and I felt that if I didn't change something soon I and the business would begin to go backwards.
I remember reading Steve Jobs autobiography and he stated "If you don't cannibalism yourself some one will come and eat you instead". To give a example of what he meant was by creating the laptop it was eating at sales of the PC, creating the IPAD was eating sales of the laptop. What Steve understood if he didn't continue to move the business forward and stood still another company would eat them up.

Based on this I decided that we needed to launch a new division (NEW CHALLENGE / MOVING FORWARD). So I presented the idea to management and they agreed. We have just employed a new person who will begin with us in September to help the dream become a reality. BUT in the midst of this comes the FEAR. What if this fails and the idea does not work. The truth is if it does not work we would have to make people redundant which believe me having to do it in the past is not a nice feeling. Having that thought in the back of the mind for me makes me work harder to make it work and realise the dream of building a hugely successful and profitable (And enjoyable)

I will share more over the months how we get on. I can tell you know it will not be easy, but when it works it going to be amazing to look back and see what could be do.

So the question is 'are you in a comfort zone or thriving'?

A saying that I love from Zig Ziglar "See you at the top"

Justice

I was just contemplating a situation recently.

If I was not to believe in God life would just be unfair and truly unbearable.

Lets check this out for just a minute
"Why does a child die every four seconds due to a lack of basic needs, when in the western world we have a epidermic called obesity that means we are seeing more children severely overweight, how is that fair?"


"Working family face financial ruin because of no fault of their own other than trusting in government and banks to do the morally thing and do what was right, how is that fair?"


"Young boys and girls are on a daily basis being abused by the very people that should be taking care of them, these kids never asked to be born, you can't tell me this is fair!?


I could go on and on and on with examples of injustice, but I am not writing this from the point of view of complaining about life injustice. I want to come from the angle to ask the question if you don't believe that one day every one will be judged how do you cope???


Seriously! I am a believer in Jesus and so believe that all of us one day will be judged for our actions. Both those that are evident to all and those things that we do in secret. 


I remember being in church once and the preacher said "what if following you around was a video screen that showed every one what you have done and what you was doing". Challenging right that really convicted me to know that God see all things even those things we think are secret and he see all that has been done to us. 


This make you check yourself to say look I need to fix up sharp but also it stops you from being overly judgmental of others. I say this many times I want to complain about other people but then I review my day and I then have to keep quite as I know I have been far from perfect. 


But lets also be real. I can get ticked off when I see injustice like some of the things that I mentioned earlier. But I am comforted when I know that even though at times murderers, abusers, bullies and oppressors seemed to get away with blue murder I know that it will only be for a time. One day they will have to answer to God like I will and account for everything that they have done.


So I leave you with to things 


If like me you get frustrated with injustice know that God knows and sees everything. 
Second, remember you will also be judged so make your right before you meet our maker.


Bless 


Remember God gift to us is life what we do with that life is our gift back to God 


Denzil 


   

Sacrifice

If you want to achieve you got to SACRIFICE. 

We all know that right! We hear business people all the time state that they SACRIFICED sleep, time and finances to build their business.

We hear of sports stars that SACRIFICE  their time, socialising everything to become the best in their in their field.

So the understanding of SACRIFICE is not new to any of us. We all know that to achieve something we might have to give up something.

I want to share something with the world in relation to my kids. I have some beautiful children and I always wanted to be a great father from a early age. Due to my past I was determined not to repeat thing that happen in my life in the life of my kids. 

But there was a major problem I never understood to have a great relationship with my kids was going to take more than a great desire. It was going to take the same action that sports stars, business owners make SACRIFICE. 

My kids want to play with me. "Dad, dad can we play fight", "Dad, dad can we play lego", "Dad, dad can I read to you", "Dad, dad can you come to my play"? 

What was my answer! For years I would give this answer. 

"Later kids, Daddy busy", "Can we play tomorrow" 

Now these responses where plausible, I was busy building a future for my kids. (HOUSE, SECURITY ETC) 

But something began to ring home and hit when my kids said "Your always working", "you never play with us" 

WOW!!!! I realised that what my kids where saying was you never spend time with us. 

Right! Time for change!!!

Unfortunately my life because I have decided to spend time with my kids was not going to get less busy. The difference was going to SACRIFICE. 

Firstly I had stop being SELFISH, it was not about me but about my KIDS

Secondly I realised I had to become dedicated to them (QUANTITY as well as QUALITY) 

Thirdly I had to accept that I had to SACRIFICE what was important to me to want was important to THEM (Kickboxing, lego, doctors and nurses whatever) 

I can say of late my kids get more time with their FATHER and I am reaping the rewards. But it came at a cost but it been worth everything I had to give up. 

So if your prepared to give all to your business, career, make sure that you apply that same SACRIFICIAL mentality to what's really important (FRIENDS, KIDS, WIFE, PARTNER & FAMILY) 

Bless

Remember "God gift to us is life, what we do with that life is out gift back to God" 

Focus, focus, focus

Been a long time since I have written on my blog.

Wanted to share we you why. LACK OF FOCUS.

One of my problems is my mind is full of ideas and things that I must do. Which in one sense is great because  I always see opportunities, but on the other hand can be a curse.

The reason that I say that is because I can become so excited about every idea that come into my head that I forget the to complete the idea I started yesterday. What then can happen is you get lots of great potential ideas that amount to nothing.
This happens to me, I get presented with a idea and my character is yes lets do it. But what I am learning is I have to learn to say NO. Even to good causes that might be worthwhile, because DISTRACTION is the root of much FAILURE.

My daughter has a saying "Dad, you must manage your DISTRACTIONS" and she is 100% right. Learn to complete your first task then move onto the next.

So going back to my title I require FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS

That includes staying on top of my blog.

Bless people

"Remember God gift to us is life, what we do with that life is our gift back to God"