One story that keeps coming to mind is the widow of Zarephath and her ability to give out her last meal to a man she hardly knew. This particular story was strongly impressed on my mind during a financially tight month in my life – no profit (infact it was a loss) for that month so I deluded myself into believing that it automatically equaled no tithe. Oh was I shocked during one of my family routine prayers that I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to give far more than I had been giving on a monthly basis (don't mind me; the salary habit is still in me). On a serious note, this was a struggle for me; «how can I tithe on a loss and to make it worse (or should I say better), I was expected to give five times my average?»

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Last week Tuesday, my dad passed away in the hospital; he lived his life for the development of others sacrificing his own personal comfort for the success of others. So when I was faced with either attending the speaking engagement for the Youth Corpers Passing Away in Delta State or just staying at home to mourn him, I chose the former to fulfill his legacy. The flight to Benin was smooth but the conversations that went through my heart took a different direction – many of us are destined to die but what we leave behind is what really counts.

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I hope it's no more news to you that 300 (three hundred) Zain executives were laid off last week and despite the fact that I have some other articles to write about, I have no choice than to invoke my calling by educating those that believe that this kind of thing can never happen to them. It is actually not what has happened but the feedback of what has happened and the chain reaction that can easily develop from this kind of event.

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After the Gold Trade Seminar on Saturday, I was a bit tired so I decided to lounge on the sofa; unfortunately or fortunately for me, my notebook was switched on since I left the house in the morning. I saw so many chats that were not replied and I saw my e-mail box was quite full. On impulse, I shut down the entire opened browser and about to shut the system when I noticed a folder on my desktop labeled; «videos»: they were some recent AVI movie files that a family friend gave me to watch. «There is no faster way to sleep than to watch a boring movie»; I told myself so I perused the files and the one that appeared boring was Oliver Stone's «W».

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I wondered who coined the adage; «God's Time is the Best». This adage is completely false though a very popular adage used in time of encouragement. When you say something is «best», you are comparing it to a minimum of two other things. The use of this adage especially when someone is reaching for something and it is not coming as expected is completely limiting the Almighty God that made the heavens and the earth. First things first, this adage is not in the bible and it has no bible premise or assumption.

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Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer are three names that will definitely come up in the 2011 election in America but I am not here to talk about politics; I want to address something that has hindered so many Christians from exploiting their potentials and thus becoming what they are destined to be. The phrase «windows of heaven» like most other words or phrases in the bible, is mostly used in error thus creating inefficient and ineffective results especially while praying.

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