I attended a youth fellowship session yesterday and the topic under discussion was No More Delays.
The speaker a pastor, took time to explain several reasons that could be responsible for a single brother or sister to experience delay in getting married.
I felt I should share the points here so that someone else may benefit.
 
What is Delay?
It is unnecessary prolonging of the occurance of an expected event. Ordinarily, it is expected that a brother will get married and settle down to raise his own family between the age of 25 to 30years, while a sister is expected to do same between the ages of 20 to 25years. When a brother remains single into his forties and a sister into her late thirties something is definitely wrong.
 
Why do people experience delay in marriage?
God has a beautiful plan for all His children. Except in special cases when He just want to show forth His glory in a peculiar manner, delays cannot be attributed to God. So, it is obvious that the enemy must be at work. The devil specialises in attempting to extend God's timetable for believers miracle. A good case study is the extra 30years that the children of Isreal spent in bondage at Egypt even though they were meant to spend 400years. As a believer, it is necessary to find out if God is the one asking you to wait patiently or it is the enemy that is prolonging your miracle.
 
Note: I'll continue the rest of the talk tomorrow. Cheers 

I bet the celebrities of this generation that can't stick together in their marriages will see this couple as a great challenge. I'm greatly inspired by the commitment of these two people to an oath they took many decades ago. They sure deserve recognition.

In this generation where some marriage don't last for a week before they breakup. It is interesting to read about Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher of New Bern, N.C. They have been married for 85years. Herbert is 104years old while Zelmyra is 101years old. Both are still living together and proving to the world that God never made a mistake when He stated that Marriage is for a lifetime.
I really wonder what excuse those changing marriage partners like they are changing cars will tell God. These old couple will surely witness against such. 

This kind of make a whole new meaning to the term PRODUCTIVITY. It is a shrewd measurement I must say. Kind of keep you humble cos you can't say you've been as productive as you ought to be when you consider those other components that qualify the so call VALUE you've produced. Nice one. Thanks for sharing.

I love the new look, but I'm missing the smilies. Whatever happened to them?

My Pastor gave me a small magazine titled PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY DIGEST. I started reading it yesterday and it has made an impact on me. An article written by Saint Ekoh of Wisdom House Abuja really made an impression on my heart.

All my life, I have always defined Productivity as OUTPUT divided by INPUT. That is the way we were thought to measure productivity in school. The author faulted that definition and went ahead to define productivity as a measure of VALUE created divided by the TIME it took to create such value.
Value is further broken down into the following components:

Impact
Whatever value you think you have created has to be measured in terms of the impact it has on people. Did your value affect 10people or 1,000 people. I think that is simple enough to understand.

Durability
How durable is the value created. Is it such that last for 1day, 1week, 1month, 1year or a lifetime. Buying a bottle of soft-drink for someone is not as durable as sponsoring a student through school.

Essence
The essence of the value created is equally important. Is it such that it is unique and rare, or is it common place. The discovery of a new drug for a terminal disease is of greater essence than the pleasure of a 30minutes comedy play.

Volume
This has to do with the quantity of the value created. How much of it did you produce. In a day, in a week etc.

At the end of the article, I couldn't help by agree that the true formula for measuring productivity is

PRODUCTIVITY = (Impact x Durability x Essence x Volume) / Time

What is your opinion? 

I think I love the new look. I have some suggestion though. I will send you a PM.

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New Christian based political song here....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCTZpbBekNg

Salvation means cutting the bonds with everything other than God.
When the intensity of Shraddha (Basic interest on God is called as Shraddha) increases, it is called as devotion. When you enter Nivrutti (loving practical service to God in Human form), there is no risk at all, since the eternal bond with God is formed. In Nivrutti, there is no need of worship of God. Worship is ex-pression of devotion. Real love does not require any ex-pression. When the occasion comes, it gets expressed spontaneously. You are not expressing daily your love on your children. When the proper occasion arises, it springs up without any effort. In Nivrutti the devotion is expressed in the test conducted by God on you.

 You say that God is testing your devotion. Your statement is correct in the language of souls. The same statement in the language of God is that God is trying to help you in proving that you have the highest bond with God only and not with anything or anybody other than God. Salvation means cutting the bonds with everything and everybody other than God. Kaivalyam means formation of the single highest bond with God. Both salvation and kaivalyam are essential.