KINGDOM OVERNIGHT OF DBS PARTINERS AND INVITEES!

1. KINGDOM OVERNIGHT OF DBS PARTINERS AND INVITEES! WHITE HOUSE VENUE-LEGANGA On 22nd March’2013.

2. Understanding The Kingdom Winning Characters! “ 7 Best Principles To Be Yourself” By Mwl.Bro.ElihurumaMaruma.

3. CHARACTER DEFINED; • CHARACTER Comes from Hebrews word ‘statue’ means fixed and protectable which makes you to be yourself. CHARACTER can be defined as:- • Is an inherent complex of attributes that determines a person. • The qualities that form the individual nature of a person.

4. The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. • The principles and motives that control the life. • A unique or extraordinary individuality

5. 7 PRINCIPLES TO BE YOURSELF *Principle is a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a chain of reasoning. Principles are the ways which are involved much in character building. You do need the right principles in order to have the right characters.

6. MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS OF PRINCIPLES. *INTENTIONALY SHOWS HOW IMPORTANT ARE THE PRINCIPLES TO ANY SUCCESS, DEVELOPMENT OR BREAKTHROUGH!

7. Characteristics Of Principles! • *Principles are PERMANENT. • *Principles NEVER CHANGE; they remain constant. • *Principles work ANYWHERE. • *Principles PROTECT the PRODUCT. • *Principles can NEVER BROKEN. • *Principles, when VIOLATED,produceDESTRUCTION. • *Principles contain INHERENT judgement.

8. 7 BEST PRINCIPLES TO BE YOURSELF! BREAKTHROUGH TO BE WHAT, WHY AND HOW GOD CREATED YOU!

9. 1. PRINCIPLE OF PURPOSE {Reasoning/Why Character} • The word PURPOSE comes from GREEK Word PROTHESIS whereby PRO means BEFORE and THESIS means PLACING. • PURPOSEis the reason for which something is done or for which something exists OR Is what God intends you to accomplish. • PURPOSE Is the end that is set from the beginning

10. BIBLICALY PROVED; • Jeremiah 1:5 “ I knew you before you were formed within your mother’s womb; before you were born I sanctified you and appointed you as…………” LB. “ I chose you before I gave you life, and before you were born I selected you to be………………..”GN

11. Continued…….. Psalm 139:13,15,16 “ You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother’s womb. 15 When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother’s womb, when I was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there- 16 you saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began” GN

12. Character Ingredients; Personal Manual Potential Passion

13. *Personal Manual • -The Word of God is the source full of instructions, principles, directives, laws and commands necessary for the human being to live real life of meaning and purpose

14. “ Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” AMP “ Your word is a lamp to guide me and a light for my path” GN “ Your words are a flashlight to light the path ahead of me and keep me from stumbling” LB, Psalm 119:105

15. Bible, The Word of God is the personal manual book to every human being as long as He lives ie.daily. Without this manual book You will live a meaningless life. • “ But Jesus said,’ Your error is caused by your ignorance of the Scriptures and of God’s power” LB. • “ Jesus answered them, “How wrong you are! It is because you don’t know the Scriptures or God’s power” GN, Matthew 22:29.

16. - King David and Job discovered the secret behind the Word of God that’s why they said:- • Psalm 119:96-97 “ I have learnt that everything has limits; but your commandment is perfect. How I love your law! I think about it all day long” GN • Job 23:12 “ I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed and treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food” AMP

17. *Potential Potential is the qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to success. It is dormant power, untapped strength, hidden ability or unused success. Our GOD-JEHOVAH was known as OMNIPOTENT GOD whereby OMNI means ALL and POTENT means POWER, STRENGHTS, ABILITIES, TALENTS,ENERGY, FORCE.

18. 2 Corinthians 4:7 “But this precious treasure – this light and power that now shine within us – is held in a perishable container, that is in our weak bodies. Everyone can see that the glorious power within must be from God and is not our own”LB.

19. “ Whatever God commands you to do is equal to your ability for you to do it” Ie. Your Potential Is Equal To Your Purpose Fulfillment.

20. *Passion • Passion is the energy that is created by a purpose and meaning for life. It is very strong emotion, an intense enthuasism for something, it is a desire that is strong than death. • Passion is the fuel for the will and fire in the heart that lifts everything in your life.

21. “Passion never takes no to an answer” Dr. Myles Munroe. • “ And I can’t quit! For If I say I’ll never again mention the Lord- never more speak in his name- then his his word in my heart is like fire that burns in my bones, and I can’t hold it in any longer” Jer 20:9.

22. 2. PRINCIPLE OF PRESENCE {Ideal Environment Character} • Exodus 33:15 “ Then Mosses said to him, if your presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here”. “ You simply cannot function properly and effectively outside the environment of God’s presence” Myles Munroe “Life in the presence of God’s is man’s ideal environment; God’s presence is also his greatest need” Myles Munroe.

23. The first presence you need is a God-friend, not a boyfriend or a girlfriend. Psalm 51:11 “ Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from Me” NIV

24. Character Ingredients; 1.Praising 2. Prayers 3.Pursue Faith

25. *Praising • Praising is to speak well of, to express admiration for, to compliment, to commend, to congratulate, to applaud, to eulogize and to extol. “ But You are holy, O You Who dwell in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered]” Psalm 22:3

26. *Prayers • - Is the key to move in a successful direction, is the communication direct with God. • Prayer has to be a habit in any Christian life, Is the touching in a spiritual realm. INSISTING VERSES; Luke 18:1, Colosians 4:2, Philipians 4:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Ephesians 5:16.

27. *Pursue Faith What is Faith?,Hebrews 11:1 *Faith is being sure of what we hope and certain of what we do not see.NIV *Faith is assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things that not seen.ESV *Faith assures us of things we expect and convinces us of the existence of things we cannot see. YB

28. FAITH AS A KINGDOM CODE “…..The just shall live by faith” Rom 1:17,NKJV “ No one can please God without faith….”Hebrews 11:6, GN “…..And this is the victory that has overcome the world-Our faith” 1John 5:4

29. SOURCE OF FAITH Romans 10:17 “ Faith cometh by hearing the word of God” Its Rhema{Acting Word} not Logos {Reading Word}. HEARING means to hear and act upon what has been heard.

30. STAGES OF FAITH • Faith by Listening and Hearing • Faith by Speaking “ Whoever tells this hill to get up through itself in the sea and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what He says will happen, it will be done for him” Mark 11:23

31. Faith by Application James 2:17 “ Thus also faith by itself, if does not have works, is dead” NKJV MISTAKES OF FAITH; *Do not look on SEEN RESULT *Do not look on paths but DESTINY. *Do not look on HOPE SIGNALS.

32. 3.PRINCIPLE OF PLANNING {Timing Character} Planning is a process of having detailed proposal for doing or achieving something OR is a process of decide on and arrange something in advance. • “ Plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty” Prov 21:5 • “ To man belongs the plans of the heart but from the Lord comes the reply of the tongue” Prov16:1 • “ Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed” Prov 16:3

33. Character Ingredients; 1.Punctuality 2. Preparation 3.Priorities

34. *Punctuality • Punctuality is the happening at or keeping to the appointed time. • Psalm 90:12 “ Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise” GN “ So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom” AMP

35. Acts 17:26 “ from one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live” AMP • “For everything there is season, and a time for every matter under heaven” ESV,Ecclesiastes 3:1

36. Ecclesiastes 3:11” He has made everything beautiful in its time……………” ESV • *Wrong Action at the Wrong Time leads to DISASTER. • *Right Action at the Wrong Time brings RESISTANCE. • *Wrong Action at the Right Time is a MISTAKE. • *Right Action at the Right Time results in SUCCESS.

37. “ men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do…” 1 Chronicles 12:32

38. *Preparation • Preparation is all about dealing with making something ready to use OR is to get ready to do or dealing with something. “Today, I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t” “I will prepare, and someday my chance will come” Abraham Lincoln. “You were Born to Win. But to be the Winner you were born to be, you have to PLAN to win and PREPARE to win then EXPECT to win”.ZigZiglar.

39. *Priorities • Prioritizing is the process of deciding order of importances of items or tasks. Is an act of seeing things which are more important than the other. “Whatever you are calling a priority must get a majority of the focus”Chris Hogan. Too many priorities paralyze us.

40. 4. PRINCIPLE OF POSITIVITY {Mindset Character}

41. Character Ingredients; Positive Attitude Programmed Mind Permissiveness

42. *Positive Attitude • Attitude is a product of belief. You cannot have AN ATTITUDE beyond the LIMITS of your BELIEFS. Your ATTITUDE comes from your BELIEF SYSTEM. • Positive Attitude is an attitude that is hopeful, favorable, or confident. “Who And Where You Are Today Result From Your Attitude” • Your Attitude Is a choice, Determines your Actions!

43. *Programmed Mind “As she/he thinks within herself/himself, so she/he is …” Prov 23:7 “If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You will always travel in the direction of your thinking”T.D Jakes.

44. *Permissiveness Permissiveness is all about allowing freedom of behaviour, especially in sexual matters.

45. 5. PRINCIPLE OF PEOPLE {God’s Image Character} • Isaiah 43:4 “ Because you are precious in My sight and honoured, and because I love you, I will give men in return for you and peoples in exchange for your life” AMP • “ And your gates shall be open continually, they shall not be shut day or night, that men may bring to you wealth of the nations- and their kings led in procession” Isa 60:11, AMP.

46. Character Ingredients; Partiners Friends Sponsors Advicers

47. *Partiners >Submit yourself to Jesus “Precious daughter your heart should be lost in God, that a man needs to seek HIM first in order to find you” >Ask for Godly partiner “If you want a cute man, buy a photograph, but if you want some help marry a godly man” T.D. Jakes. >Be yourself “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself” Oprah Winfrey. >Be Disciplined and Respectful

48. FRIENDS; Proverb 22:24-25 “ Don’t make friends with people who have hot, violent tempers, you might learn their habits and not be able to change” GN

49. 6. PRINCIPLE OF PERSISTENCE { Diligence Character} • Persistence is a consistence insistence that you gonna have which stands against every opposition,IT IS KEEP ON KNOCKING. “I’ve NEVER met anyone who become incredibly successful in their life without sacrificing their time, blood, sweaty, tears and commitment”T.D. Jakes.

50. Character Ingredients; Price Performance Production