Many people question the possibility of a life void of stress and hard
labour. 'It exists!', so says Dr. Kayode Ijisesan in his new book titled The Empowered Life. This 243-paged work currently serves as my next-level textbook.
We live in a world where everyone has to work extremely hard to make
headway in life. Long work hours, rivalry and competition, and
high-risk business ventures are commonplace; yet only very few people get the
chance to live a full, healthy and rounded life. Even so, such life isn't
without costly personal sacrifices. The good news is that there is a kind of
lifestyle that facilitates all-round growth and development without stress, hardship
or painstaking labour. It is referred to as a lifestyle of the Blessing.
The Blessing is described as the ability or enablement to produce
prosperity, success and power; a spiritual force or substance that propels
someone to get high-level results in life. Dr. Kay. says the
Blessing is like an invisible bank-account that has everything a
person needs to live well --riches, health, goodwill from others, wisdom,
creativity, you name it. It was given to man by God, but when man lost it, he began
to experience stress and toil (i.e. the curse which is the opposite of the
Blessing.) This explains why humans have had to struggle in one way or the
other to get most of the good things of life.
In spite of mankind's failure to secure this propelling force called the
Blessing, a new way has been created to recover the great loss. The Empowered Life explains this new way
of recovery in great detail. It shows how God recreated a pathway for the
Blessing-flow by forming a pact with man in which He (God) stands as the senior
partner. It explains why the wrong mind-set can reduce the efficacy of the
Blessing in our lives. Attitudes like strife, rivalry and weak character can
compromise the effect of the Blessing and make a person get little returns even
though he or she is working harder than others. The book also explains how these wrong attitudes
can be corrected.
"Wrong attitudes or habits can form over time
due to negative information and association. Such brainwash of the mind can be
prevented or dealt with by the knowledge of the truth."
page 113-114
The pact (or covenant) that God made with mankind demands very simple
things. It requires that man should make certain lifestyle adjustments like
serving faithfully, living a lifestyle of love and giving honour when
it’s due. If these simple changes can become habits, a person would have
successfully created the right atmosphere for the Blessing to do its work.
The expression or manifestation of the of the force of the
Blessing is individual in nature, thus, the experience of this empowering
substance is personal; varying from person to person based on how much they are
committed to apply these lifestyle changes. The Empowered Life is truly a
manual for a stress-free life, just like God designed our lives to be.
