I talked a bit about being stuck before figuring out some essentials and starting Lifehack, and today I'd like to dive a bit deeper into that story.
The date was Christmas Eve, 2006.
That day, my team -- where I worked as a manager at a fortune 500 company -- had just finalized a huge and complicated project with high pressure deadlines.
My hard work had indeed yielded results. In a short 5 years since starting at Red Hat, I'd steadily climbed the ladder, going from a junior engineer to a senior manager in charge of global software engineering operations. I was the youngest manager in the whole company. I had all the indications of success. A flashy sports car, stock options, and a very comfortable financial situation
As I was privately celebrating in my office, it slowly dawned on me that the sense of satisfaction and achievement I expected to feel... just wasn't there. Instead there was a sense of emptiness and apathy, mixed with a tinge of anxiousness and fear.
Why was I feeling this way?
When I started at my company, one of my mentors had told me of this moment; when I would begin tasting the thrill of success in a big company --- along with all of its associated benefits.
The notion had really excited me at the time, and drove me to put in years of extreme effort. Unlike a lot of my peers, success never came easy for me at all. Even in university, I was never the greatest student and spent most of my time absorbed in my true passion, which was exploring and building the new frontier of web applications.
My success was also giving me huge challenges: as I became more "successful", my time was no longer under my control.
To me, my career should be my life's work, and not just some job that helps me get by.
I didn't want my "real life" to only be the half of my life that's outside of work.
I'd always been passionate about self improvement, and pushing myself to be more and do more. I wasn't sure how, but I wanted to contribute something valuable to the world. The next twenty years would be the prime years of my life, but I already knew most of it would be spent doing something that wasn't fulfilling this purpose.
My internal struggle was that I had already worked so hard to get to this point. I was in a comfortable position to move onto the next stage of a "normal life".
I was ready to get married, have kids and start a family. I had to reassure my soon-to-be fiancee our future was steady and secure. I also had to fulfill the expectations of my family, friends, and even colleagues.
By everyone else's standards, everything was "great" already. It would probably be the height of stupidity to give up on the career path I was currently on.
But as I sat looking out at the beautiful view of the city from my window, this growing feeling of uncertainty only started to get stronger and stronger.
Over the next few weeks, I realized something was way off. I almost immediately got promoted onto an even bigger and more important project. But, instead of feeling excitement, I just felt... really tired.
Some of my colleagues suggested I was burnt out ... maybe I should take a vacation! But as the weeks dragged on, I started suspecting otherwise.
It was only a few short months later, when I hit the first true crossroads of my life. Depending on my decision, I could see my life diverging along two completely different paths.
So what happened?
It was pretty life-changing.
In fact, it ultimately led me to developing an incredible course that can help you transform your life, too.
Would you like to know what I found out, which allowed me to get my idea up and running with no money?
Stay tuned for tomorrow's email, where I'll share how a simple change of mindset transformed my life -- and, more importantly, how you can get similar results.
Cheers,
Leon
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Every victorious prayer warrior has a ...
collection of prayers that have brought great deliverance and blessings.
They pray and share them to receive more blessings.
Prayer eagles like my students hoard them, collect them, and treasure them.
I learned that in case of a fire, most of my students would move to save their prayer collections first.
I showed them how to download all our prayer riots and keep them for future use.
Over the years I instructed my assistants to set up electronic prayer cabinets organized by topic.
Debt Freedom
Marriages
Relationships
Salvation
Spiritual Growth
Holy Spirit Baptism
Healing and Deliverance
Finances and
Evangelism
Job and Career Advancement
Dreams and Visions
Prophecies
Spiritual Warfare
Holy Living
Yes, I catalogued everything that prayer warriors have prayed since the dawn of Christianity.
I studied them and asked the Holy Spirit to show me when to use them.
Take for example the "Great Physician" prayer.
It is responsible for hundreds of healing testimonies on our websites.
Another one is the prayer against rejection which goes like this:
'Covenant keeping God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the places where
they have rejected me, cause them to call me back and fall over themselves to
help me in Jesus' name.'
That one has brought so many testimonies we stopped counting.
New jobs.
Many weddings.
Happy marriages.
Then my assistant alerted me to a prayer file salvaged from a very old HP computer I used in the nineties.
It was bizarre.
We used it for training and deliverance from "hard" problems.
Especially for those tormented by serpentine powers.
I had never seen a prayer sequence that effective.
I stored those prayer files in that old hard drive and forgot about them for 22 years!
Earlier this year, I found them and sat down and started to go through them.
Goldmine!
One lady used them and got delivered from a serpent projected into her
private parts when she visited a false prophet years ago!
Another student accessed the prayers late last year.
At 6:00 A.M. in the morning of January 8, 2019 she sent this email:
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"Permission Request to Share Lesson ZERO"
"Good day elisha
Please may you allow me to share Lesson Zero with my friend,
her name is xxxxxxx. She did her Prayer Academy sometime
back before Lesson Zero was introduced.
She is having a problem that I once went through which was
addressed in Lesson Zero. I used to have dream of a spirit spouse
wearing my husband's face.
On the first day of Lesson Zero the spirit husband was unmasked,
it was a serpent, wearing my husband's clothes but its face was unmasked,
I chased it until I destroyed it. My friend is being attacked by a spirit,
which comes wearing her younger face.
Please allow me to share the prayer points with her."
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There are 70 of those prayer bullets.
All collected into a new Prayer Academy PDF entitled:
LESSON 0: 70 Prayers to Terminate the Ministry of the Serpent
and there's so much more to this as well.
The pdf opens with these words:
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"Powerful revelation today…
… aimed at opening your eyes to a hidden realm where victory is won or lost --
before anything happens in the physical world."
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If you want to discover these "lost" prayer bullets no one has heard of...
head on over to the Prayer Academy sign-up page:
The Prayer Academy With New Mystery Lesson ZERO
http://www.firesprings.com/order07.htm
(In the future this Lesson may no longer be available).
Be An Overcomer
elisha
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Posted: 30 Jan 2019 11:18 AM PST
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“I’m too busy.”
How often I’ve said this!
Sometimes births, holidays, sickness, family problems, and life transitions leave me no alternative. But usually I choose what will keep me busy, and what keeps me busy reflects my values and priorities.
Even though people rarely think of busyness as a sin, it’s often a result of pride, foolishness, laziness, irresponsibility, or lack of planning.
God’s principles can help:
- Johns 15--Jesus is glorified when we “bear much fruit," but we produce inferior fruit when we spread ourselves too thin.
- Ephesians 2:10--God has prepared purposes for us. Even when we busy ourselves with lots of good things, we can miss the best things.
- Colossians 3:23-24--God is our boss. He can help us plan our schedule and prioritize our lives.
God isn’t calling us to busyness—He is calling us to His priorities and purposes.
If you have too many commitments, pray about which to trim from your schedule. If you’ve been wasting time, pray about ways to de-clutter your schedule and set solid priorities.
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