After God, your mind determines how far you’ll go in 2025, By Ayo Akerele

What you permit, God gained’t forbid. The way you finish your life; how Nigeria ends as a nation; what turns into of your enterprise; how your lecturers would finish; how your youngsters are raised; and what turns into of your finance, are all of your accountability. Possibly you could have been taught that God is coming to repair them for you. All you want is to hope, quick, and fold your arms. Apologies. God won’t repair them. After God, the subsequent best issue of success in life is the standard of our minds.

The delicate goal of each recognized oppressor on this planet is the thoughts. Totalitarian governments leverage on the weapons of propaganda to finally management and manipulate the minds of the lots. It was Dr Erwin Lutzer who as soon as mentioned that, “propaganda is the clever manipulation of the lots.” Joseph Stalin weaponised propaganda for many years in Russia. Adolf Hitler wielded the identical weapon. Kim Jong Un’s empire in North Korea is notoriously well-known for weaponising numerous eventualities to manage and seize the minds of their residents.

Beneath the Nazis, Adolf Hitler recruited a superb younger man, Joseph Goebbels, who he appointed because the Minister for Propaganda. His job was quite simple, to create a ministry of propaganda and disinformation for the only goal of manipulating the minds of the German inhabitants to simply accept Hitler’s nefarious actions as actions meant for the development of the German society. The German authorities, popularly known as the Third Reich, feasted on the unsuspecting youthful inhabitants, youngsters and children, who have been nonetheless of their childhood, and modified textbooks to brainwash them with numerous instructional contents that depicted Hitler because the saviour of Germany. The federal government created caricatures of the Jews that depicted them as scums and sub-human entities. It advised clever lies concerning the mission of Germany within the Second World Struggle. It achieved its outcomes because the overwhelming majority of the German inhabitants fell for the lies and defended Hitler till they met their Waterloo

Can the Thoughts Be Managed?

Not too long ago, Netflix unveiled a brand new documentary collection, titled, The way to Grow to be a Tyrant. On this work, a playbook for the making of tyrants was scripted right into a film that describes how the world’s most infamous dictators and tyrants have been made. One of many instruments on this playbook is “thoughts management”, a mechanism to subdue individuals into compelled obedience and compliance. Such is the ability of the thoughts in getting a society beneath the agency grip of state captors. Among the common instruments of thoughts management embody gaslighting, propaganda, and numerous brainwashing methods. The Russians are notoriously well-known for the usage of a lot of those instruments, which they nonetheless leverage to create confusion on this planet.

Apparently, the second a gaggle of individuals inside any system, organisation or society rebels towards the established order of thoughts management, the system comes after them, suppresses them, incarcerates them, and even, in some circumstances, executes them. Joseph Stalin, the infamous Soviet dictator, executed tens of hundreds of dissents, women and men whose minds they discovered tough to manage or manipulate. Adolf Hitler executed tens of hundreds of dissidents, women and men who stood up towards the Fuhrer’s evil agendas.

While you seize the thoughts, you seize the person. The thoughts of man is so highly effective that scientists have for lengthy been enamoured by its capability to make or break males. Years in the past, Dr Ben Carson, the American physician who led the group that efficiently separated the primary recognized conjoined twins joined on the head, mentioned, “the thoughts of males, as soon as enlarged, doesn’t return to its unique place.”

Seize the Thoughts, Seize the Man

Come over to Africa to witness the plethora of state sponsored disinformation agendas that have been focused at controlling the minds of the lots primarily by way of the media. In international locations like Uganda, Libya, and Congo, the instruments of propaganda and gaslighting to manage and seize the minds of the lots have been generously engaged by tyrants and dictators. Sure, the media is usually probably the most potent weapon of thoughts management. The agenda is agency, seize the thoughts, seize the person. Dr Erwin Lutzer as soon as mentioned, “the media does greater than informing the general public. It alters the consciences of generations.”

While you seize the thoughts, you seize the person. The thoughts of man is so highly effective that scientists have for lengthy been enamoured by its capability to make or break males. Years in the past, Dr Ben Carson, the American physician who led the group that efficiently separated the primary recognized conjoined twins joined on the head, mentioned, “the thoughts of males, as soon as enlarged, doesn’t return to its unique place.”

Will God Change Nigeria?

For my Christian brothers and sisters, God won’t change Nigeria. Did I hear you say that I had simply made an error? Sure, you heard me proper. It’s nonetheless a part of the identical topic – the standard of our minds. God has by no means fastened any nation on this planet. Males repair their nations. If you happen to do nothing about Nigeria, God will do nothing. God’s values and ideas for nation constructing are justice, equity, righteousness, fact, love, and others. It’s our obligation to obey Him by imbibing these values to elect the appropriate individuals as leaders who will then repair our nation. If you happen to vote in dangerous leaders, your fasting and prayers gained’t cease the implications. Cease saying, “God forbid.”

The God you enlarge dominates your life. If Devil and his demons are extra actual to you, they’ll dominate your life. If the demons of your father’s home are extra actual to you than what Jesus did on the cross, these demons will dictate the tempo of your life. You have to educate your thoughts with the very best type of schooling at your disposal and inside your attain.

What you permit, God gained’t forbid. The way you finish your life; how Nigeria ends as a nation; what turns into of your enterprise; how your lecturers would finish; how your youngsters are raised; and what turns into of your finance, are all of your accountability. Possibly you could have been taught that God is coming to repair them for you. All you want is to hope, quick, and fold your arms. Apologies. God won’t repair them. After God, the subsequent best issue of success in life is the standard of our minds.

You must subsequently make it a precedence to guard and defend your thoughts. You’ll be able to’t be better than the standard of your thoughts. One of many essential areas of our challenges as Africans lies within the high quality of our minds. There’s a mindset for achievement. There’s a mindset for failure. There’s a mindset for poverty. There’s a mindset for prosperity. A lot of the crises bedeviling us stem from the damages executed to our minds by a lot of actors and gamers in our areas, spiritual leaders, politicians, mother and father, and the media. You have to be brutal with the selection of pastors and church buildings you go to this 12 months.

The God you enlarge dominates your life. If Devil and his demons are extra actual to you, they’ll dominate your life. If the demons of your father’s home are extra actual to you than what Jesus did on the cross, these demons will dictate the tempo of your life. You have to educate your thoughts with the very best type of schooling at your disposal and inside your attain. You’ll be able to’t go farther or additional than the standard of your thoughts can permit.

Ayo Akerele is the senior Pastor of Rhema Meeting and the founding father of the Voice of the Watchmen in Ontario, Canada. He may be reached by way of ayoakerele@gmail.com