We began with the story of Brain Icy as found in the 1982 Encyclopedia Britannica year book under the section unusual events of the year. Brain Icy woke up and found a leak on the ceiling of his apartment; in the bid to call the vacuum cleaner he discovered all his four tires were flat, ran back to call on the phone, had electric shock; called a friend to help him discovered his car has been stolen. They found the car, he dressed for parliamentary service was about to go out when he sat on the bayonet of his gun which cut through him and he had to go for surgery.
Now, his friend took him back home after surgery as he opened the door he saw that plasters which had fallen from the ceiling had killed all the canaries in his cage; his birds were dead. As he ran across the wet carpet to get to the cage he fell down and injured his back and was taken to the hospital again.
A newspaper reporter caught up with him and asked him; how can you explain all these happening to only one person in a day and Brain Icy said humorously it looked like God was trying to kill me but he kept missing. Isn’t that interesting for someone who has seen so much trouble in one day. He should have been discouraged at that point in time but he was still humorous, he was still cheerful. The truth was that; that day was going to come to an end.
I want to say also that your challenges are seasonal. This phase will pass. This downturn in business will pass. The world has experienced recession before and the world has always come out of those recessions. If your business is experiencing a recession you will come out of this but on one condition if you don’t give up. Winners never quit but then quitters never win. You may never discover your potential for overcoming adversity until you find yourself in one. Be like the tea bag it releases its sweetness when it is thrown into hot water. Maybe this is the season you will get the best idea of your life ever. Don’t give up your miracle is on the way.
If you have experienced a down turn in business the customers are not coming any longer, the jobs are not there, you have to lay people off work or maybe you are the one that have been laid off work I want to encourage you to realize that things could be worse. You may have lost some money, you may have lost customers, you may have lost some opportunities, you may have lost a shop but there are things to still thank God for; everything is not lost yet it could have been worst than this. You have not lost your life, most of us have not lost our health, we have not lost our relationships, we have not lost our husbands or wives or our children, we have not lost our houses, we have not lost our vehicles, we have not lost our assets; something is lost quite alright but all is not lost yet.
We must not give up and behave like everything is finished. I want to say to you today that you are not finished yet at all. Your opportunities in life are not yet finished; your life is not finished yet. At least something is working and you could afford to give God some thanks. Please realize that things could be worse. At the same time acknowledge where you are, some things have changed that is the truth; sometime we spend a whole lot of time wishing things didn’t change there is no point things have changed its time to move on. Some opportunities have expired, its time to move in a new direction, its time to make a new plan, its time to dream a new dream; but please know that God will never allow an opportunity to expire in your life if He has not created another one. Let’s go for it, let’s find it; take time to pray, to think, to plan, to dream; there is a new day, a new dawn around the corner.
You will succeed!
