TODAY ON YOUTHFUL 'N' USEFUL HOUR; "KNOWLEDGE CONVERSION"

Dear youth, when you study as a student, instead of cramming and struggling to get hundred percent in the examination, you should rather think of how best you can use the knowledge to achieve something sooner or later in life. Truly, the onus of your useful life lies solely on you, because you make yourself what you become. 

Get this! “The essence of knowledge is having it to apply it, not having it to confess your ignorance”, said Confucius. In the same way, Martin Luther King (Jnr) agreed that “the prosperity of a country depends not on the abundance of its revenue nor on the strength of its fortification, not on the beauty of its public buildings, but it consists in the number of citizens, its men of character and enlightenment”.  

You want to be useful youths? Then, get educated; get quality books and tapes that will transform your life positively. Stop attending parties that will not improve the quality of your life, rather attend seminars, go to church, fellowship, programmes and listen to impactful messages. You must be deep versed in knowledge, you must not be myopic in reasoning, and you must be radical in wisdom. 

To acquire this feat, you must read omnivorously; reading everything that crosses your path, whether related to your field or not. He is an educated youth who knows something about everything in life, he may not know everything about something but have a gentleman’s knowledge of them. 

Moreover, the level of one’s knowledge depends largely on the number of books one has read, because nothing improves the quality of one’s mind than reading. Reading and listening to inspiring messages is the sure passport to many wonders that will happen in your life.

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TODAY ON YOUTHFUL 'N' USEFUL HOUR; "QUESTION FROM A PUBLIC BUS CONDUCTOR"

There are popular questions which public bus or taxi drivers or conductors usually ask their passengers, whenever a strong argument ensues between them. These questions are; “Who are you? And what do you think you are?”  To them these questions are the same, and they usually don’t expect any answer from the so called passenger. It was meant to intimidate the passenger and win their case or argument. These questions struck me many years ago while I was in a public bus and the above scenario occurred. For months, I could not get my head off the thought so I was much keened in finding out who I was. For me, it was a period of self-discovery, self-recognition and self-awareness.   

Today, I’m asking you; who are you? You may not need to answer me on paper. Seriously, who are you? Get the question. I’m not asking who do you think you are, or what are you? Who are you really?

Many youth have lost their usefulness because they fail to discover (find out) the essence of their existence. They live their lives based on who they think they are, not on whom they really are. Others live their lives based on what their parents, siblings, relatives, community, culture, peers, spiritual leader and society think they are. Undoubtedly, these shape our thinking, opinions and mindset, giving us an idea of who we think we are. Also, our behaviours, choices, visions, ambitions, characters, self-concept and lifestyle take their cue from these strongly held opinion of who we think we are, not who we really are.

Infact, some of us are totally confused by our own very complex nature, and on several occasions have asked other people who are also confused as we are, to tell us who they think we are and their responses have sometimes baffled us. Hence, we live our lives way behind our innate potentials and powers.

 Becoming a useful youth is guaranteed the day you are able to separate who you think you are from who you really are. Let me break it down! Whatever your parents, siblings, relatives, peers, friends, lecturers, school-mates, colleagues, your bosses or religious leaders told you about yourself is just their opinion about you.  It is only God and you that can define your purpose in life. It begins with the question. “Lord what do you want me to do?” (Acts 9:6).

What are those productive skills you find less stressful and, that you enjoy doing even without supervision or with less emolument? What are those talents you derive much pleasure in doing even without formal education or qualification?

Sometimes, your gift might be so numerous that you find yourself at a crossroad. Relax! Simply seek the face of God in sincere prayer and fasting. Then, allow Him to guide your decision. You can also take that which has more economic value considering your location or environment. Don’t hesitate to seek professional help. Never ask for a carpenter’s advice when you want to mend your clothe.   

Our usefulness in life must of utmost importance emanate from self-recognition, self-understanding and self-concept; knowing who you are, your likes and dislikes, passivity and impassivity, strength and weakness, abilities and capabilities. You must understand your emotional composition, your temperament and exactly what you are in this world to do or achieve and how you have been wired to accomplish them.  

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TODAY ON YOUTHFUL 'N' USEFUL HOUR; "WHAT DO YOU SEE?"

Dare to start anything in life: school, career, relationship or marriage without having a clear picture or understanding about it? Then, you are in for doom. Vision is the ability to see possibilities before executing. It is the invisible plan of action of an individual, programmed to be made visible in the course of time. It precedes great achievement. This is because success is not achieved without a vision. Without vision the youths perish in the sea of complacency, ambiguity and ambivalence. Why, because vision is the lens that interprets the event of our life. Let me explain! If you have scratches on your eye lens, it may seem everybody around you has scratches too. In the same way, if your vision of life is impaired, your life direction will totally be void; without defined shape-Just like an amoeba.

Many youths today are waxing in the shadow of themselves because they couldn’t see their real self.  Pause and think! What have you seen about yourself? Seriously, what do you see? Imagine walking on a dark pathway without a light. No doubt, you may stumble over stones and hills, get severely injured or even lose your life and never reach your destination. Vision gives a clear meaning and understanding of your purpose in life. It gives light and direction to your destiny. Without vision it is very possible that a young person will walk and work aimlessly, live carelessly and die shamefully. You know why? Vision defines the picture of your future. If you can see it, you can have it. If you have not seen it, don’t act it.

Vision is a mission in action to achieve. One without a vision is like a scalar quantity, which has no direction. You can’t enter a public transport system without knowing where to alight, that will really be embarrassing. When you don’t even know the right bus- stop to alight, the right thing to do is to ask question and get answer which will eventually guide you. To have vision is to have foresight, with insight base on hindsight. It is beginning a thing with the end in mind.

Vision says; “I am an adventurer seeking for treasure”. What a youth needs is the right vision not capital.

Without qualification or formal education, he started with one hundred and fifty dollar ($150). He was much determined to cloth the naked after seeing mammoth crowd without good clothings and foot-wears. Though born in Elimina in 1952) the second of nine children, he moved to New York City at age twenty-seven with the vision to become a full-time fashion designer. Nothing could stop him because, he saw the vision. Failure, pains, money and enemies bow, because he was a vision carrier. He became the world most renowned fashion-designer. Today, the world celebrates his victory. You and I wear products from his vision; boxers, chinos, singlet, undies, stylish bags and foot-wears with his label name, Tommy Hilfiger. This is a concise story of the man, Thomas James Hilfiger popularly known by his label name Tommy Hilfiger.

There are millions of people with sound records of excellence who translate their vision into useful products like the sachet water we drink, the pen we use, the computer system, microphone, speakers, tooth-brush and paste, cream, down to the simple tooth-pick you use, after eating certain food. These are all products from young men and women like you. Do I need to remind you that any man without a vision is a man without a future and that no man ever saw glory without seeing the vision?.  One thing is certain; every vision that is not backed up by quality decision will only end in delusion. What did you see? 

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TODAY ON YOUTHFUL AND USEFUL HOUR: "YOU CAN BE A DOCTOR (name your own profession) AND STILL BE USELESS"

At the end of this gist, you will come to believe that you are not just meant to be youthful, but also to be useful. That, you are not created to destroy but to build, that you are not just made to live but to make impact. Like Jesus said through the Psalmist, King David, “we are fearfully and wonderfully made”.  To be fearfully made infers that we were created for some special and specific use and assignment. You are created to execute a mandate, and I believe by the special grace of God, you will be useful in God’s hand and in this world.

Definitely, as young people, we desire freedom to live stress free lives, to enjoy everything and to have it all, but ironically, you cannot eat your cake and still have it. It is very pathetic that young people have sold their usefulness and values to the devil without the knowledge that whenever God plants good seed, the devil on the other hand plan to thwart or destroy its process of germination. The devil is now using some youths to fulfill his mission here on earth.

Many youth can sing, but they use it to lure people into sin. Some can dance, but you can only find them in night clubs and hotels. Others can talk but they have made up their mind to gossip and blaspheme or slander people. Many have the ability to persuade people, but they use it to persuade others into doing ungodly things. Some youths can compose very useful piece, but you only see them write seducing letters and post fetish comment on their facebook walls.

Many ladies are beautiful, but they use it as a weapon to seduce men. So many youths out there are perishing, they are dying of ignorance. Someone once said; “Youth is only a journey, a phase we pass through to fulfill our assignments here on earth” which means that we will not remain young forever. 

Solomon had all he wanted: wealth, women, wisdom, gold and silver but he said that all was like “chasing a wind, vanity upon vanity”, then he gave an antidote to vanity when he admonished, “Remember now thy creator in the days of your youth”. It is only when we remember God in our youthful age that He can make us useful in life. So all these things we are chasing:  money, girls, land, fame and education are all of no use without God – the “Unseen reality” and arbiter of our lives. You can be a doctor and still not be useful. A lawyer, an engineer, a teacher, professor, you name it! What matters most is that you depart from evil and live an exemplary life, which pleases God. We are not truly living until we are of value to our homes, communities and the world at large because it is our positive influence that makes us useful in life. We must not only be drifting or sifting, but wholly lifting and shifting, with shrift and thrift, from words of war to war of words.

So, I earnestly advise that you should be careful of earthly living, let your life not be wasted in errors and riotous living (Read Luke 15:11-15). Wake up! Even if you have fallen many times, dust up yourself and move on, God is always there to embrace and engrace you. Take charge to discharge and deliver your destiny, the whole world is waiting for your opinion.

How then can one be useful as a youth?

This is the very question this book “Youthful and Useful” is BORN to answer. It contains different clues that will turn you into a self propelled success machine, ready to explore and ‘GLOW’ your world. I call it the youth restoration clues; you can call it, the best magic keys to unlock your destiny. 

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TODAY ON YOUTHFUL 'N' USEFUL HOUR "WHO IS A YOUTH?"

In a Google search, the following statement was made about the youth of South, “The youth of the South are no longer youthful and useful but made youthless and useless in the rungs and ranks of their nation building” (Posted on Nov. 29^th 2011 by 03.10pm). In another development, one thing that still worries me is why the women are given 35% affirmative action, but the youth with nothing.

From our household experience, not everything that looks new is useful and not everything that looks old is useless. Similarly, from our new nationhood experience not everybody that looks youthful is useful and not every body that looks youthless is useless.            Hence, this call for a critical examination of the youth, her youthfulness and usefulness. Thus, who is a youth?

A youth is simply a young person or the period of life when one is young, say from 13 to 25 years for early youth and from 26 to 45 years for late youth. To be youthful means, having complete and full qualities of a young person. Simply put, to be full as a youth and useful is to effectively use something to the full. Now, what are the true qualities of a youth that should be put into full use?

·        Youth is a time when your brain and brawn (strength) are agile, active and vibrant.

·        It is the time when all your nerves and instincts are seeking the strongest task to accomplish.

·        The prime time of anyone’s life, and the period of curiosity and inquisitiveness is the youth age.

·        Youth is that period of life when you are endowed with vitality, bubbling with enthusiasm, fiery zeal and unquenchable heroism. It is the period when you are full of strength, verve and elixir.

·        Youths are tabernacle of unseen marbles and marvels.

·        Youth have creative powers and tremendous ability that propel from the inside (CF II Tim 1:6-7).

·        Youth are the shining light of God, chosen generation, royal priesthood and peculiar people (see, 1 Peter 2:9).

·        Youths are fearfully and wonderfully made (Ps. 139:14).

No wonder, my name sake, William Shakespeare said;

        “Youth is nimble ….. Youth is hot and bold….Youth I adore thee”. 

A useful youth is therefore a young person who is spiritually active, mentally sound and emotionally balance. One who is sociable, creative, meticulous, risk bearer, problem solver, a ‘think-tank’, an innovator and a world-changer. He is a useful youth who combines knowledge with skills for productivity; who acts after deep thought and who translate vision into action for pension.

If you meet an accomplished old man, prosperous and celebrated, it did not just happen somewhere in his old age. It is a product of a series of wise decisions made and successfully executed while in his teens and twenties. On the slip side, if you see an old woman whose life is battered and shattered, and being pushed between one man and another, it is not likely due to the life she lives when she has become old. She laid that kind of foundation when she was young. Youth is the ‘yesteryears’ of old age, what you make of it, is what it will become.

Therefore, it is my aim in this masterpiece to fire you with an unquenchable heroism and enthusiasm which will make you a lion ready to devour anything that will plan to negate your move in becoming a useful youth with the sole and ultimate aim of actualizing your dream in life. When you put in the effort, zeal, and zest and get determined, it will unfold your innate and inner reservations, and wonders will begin to happen. So, I urge you, Capediem! (Seize the opportunity).

 WILLIAM AGUGUA

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YOUTHFUL, FRUITFUL AND USEFUL CHRISTIAN CENTRE-MINISTRIES

YFUCC is a global non-denominational and inter-denominational teaching ministry with network of Christ-minded leaders across the globe. The ministry is designed to provide divine solutions to global problems. It is commissioned to raise world leaders and to provide job for her teeming youth population through prayers, mentorship, entrepreneurial trainings, partnership, connections and contracts.

The grace establishing the ministry is to empower her members within seven months of identifying with the ministry. This can only be achieved through the grace of God. We teach the mind of Christ and believe that JESUS is the answer for our world today. Whatever GOD is saying in both our personal and corporate problems is final.

 “And God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth” (Gen. 1:28 RSV).

YFUCC call is to educate the world on what GOD is saying about politics, governance, leadership, commerce, economy, security, education, health, career, business, relationship, agriculture, entertainment and eternity.

It's time to have the understanding of GOD's time and season, to walk and work in the mind of CHRIST in order to position rightly for His glory. We must learn to align our mind with that of CHRIST.

He said, think of these things; truth, honesty, just, purity, love, good, virtue and praise (Phil.4:8).

The world will be the best place to live if we train the youths; our children in the mind of CHRIST; if we raise and vote leaders with the mind of CHRIST; if we educate professionals with the mind of CHRIST; and if we learn to see things with the mind of CHRIST.

MOTTO: The Mind of CHRIST
                               
 VISION STATEMENTS
(1) To educate and inspire young-minds and to empower them/create job opportunity.
(2) To raise leaders and professionals with the mind of CHRIST.
(3) To populate GOD's kingdom (HEAVEN).

MISSION STATEMENT

Providing an atmosphere of teaching and learning the word of TRUTH; involving in all forms of GODLY competitions and activities;  discipling,  mentoring, empowering, engaging, enlightening and inspiring world future leaders; the Youths positively; partaking in business, research, consultancy, and counseling; evangelism and any other mission as inspired by GOD.

DEPARTMENTS:

(1)          Prayer/Evangelism

(2)          Media/Publicity

(3)          Business/Empowerment (employment)

(4)          Theatre Art

(5)          Music

(6)          Sport

(7)          Finance/Logistics

(8)          Welfare

(9)          Programme

(10)    Literary

All of us are made uniquely and called specially. Do you want to be a minister in YFUCC? Do you want to nurture and develop that gift and talent in you? Are you finding it difficult to earn in your area of gifting and talent, no matter how hard you’ve tried?

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BIRTHDAY VS DEATHDAY by WILLIAM AGUGUA

We are so scared of death but we must all die if Christ tarries. Birthday is the exact date we are born and for some they celebrate their birth anniversary every year while others just celebrate it anytime or year they so wish. The date a person dies is his/her deathday. There are families, churches, communities or friends that celebrate the death of a loved one especially on the exact repeated numerical day that the person passed on as a way of commemorating the person’s achievements in life.

I have always been confronted with the question of which is more important; birthday or deathday? 

Birth precedes death. The day a person is born is as important as the day the person will die. On the day a child is born, there’s always a cry from the child; the cry of meeting face to face with a sinful and troubled world. When a person dies, he feels at peace and relaxes because he’s leaving a painful world to meet his Creator. So he is free from diseases, hunger and starvation, persecutions, tribulations and afflictions. He is free from the thought of what the children will eat, school fees, cancer, high blood pressure, house rent, electricity bill and the likes.

Again when a child is born, family and friends shout and sing for joy, and when the person dies, there’s also a shout but this time, the shout of agony and sorrow amidst tears and pains.

A birthday comes with the question of what the child will become but when a person dies, the question of what he will be remembered for is always been asked. This was why a writer wrote; “man is great by deeds not by birth”. When someone dies, that’s when we really celebrate their achievements. The Holy bible wrote; “a good name is better than precious ointment and the day of death than the day of one’s birth” Eccl.7:1.

When we are born, we begin life but what will that life be? Again scripture said “better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof”

Birth is only but a journey and death is the end of that journey but the account of that journey is the fruits of that journey and that’s all that really matters.

Death is the end of dying. The days of men here on earth are the days of dying. The moment we are born, we commence to die. David understood this fact very well when he said “God teach us to number our days that we may gain wisdom” Ps.90:12 and in Ps.39:4-6, he prayed “Lord let me know my end and what is the measure of my days: let me know how fleeting my life is…”

We must always be reminded that we are born to live to die and so make conscious effort to make our deathday as joyful and memorable as our birthday. We must always remember that we were created to make impact; to make a living and not just to merely exist. We must not bring back to God what He gave us to our generation. Deathday is coming closer per second. We must not allow the grave to meet us still loaded with our kingdom gift. Birthday reminds us that years are passing by and we are yet to fulfill our mandate on earth. Therefore, we must make haste. So we can be able to say like Apostle Paul; ”I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course…”2Tim.4:7 and like the Lord Jesus, when He echoed on the cross, “It is finished”! Jn.19:30.

When a baby is born, he is full of dreams. Truely, we were born naked but not empty. Allow that little child in you to achieve and fulfill his dreams. Stop suffocating that baby with sins, distractions and indecisions. Go back to the Creator if you have miss the link and He will direct your path. You shall be celebrated and remembered for your positive impacts even after death. You shall be happy even in death. So I say happy birthday! Moreso, happy deathday!

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