The Insights

 “So give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians” 1 Kings 5:6. There is a saying that he who pays the piper dictates the tune. This is true. But the piper can decide how much he will charge for playing that tune if what he plays is: in demand; rare or particularly difficult to play. A skill is cultivated when you identify, develop and deploy the potentials you have. The moment a skill is cultivated, a niche is carved out. It takes being skillful to stand out. It takes being skillful to name your price. Once you can do something no one else can do or few people can do, you can stand with the high and the mighty to negotiate your price. Admittedly, being skillful is not that easy. It does not come on a platter of gold. It calls for diligence, focus, commitment, to a particular course of action. Ask those who are s...

Memorise: Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. Romans 11:19 Read: Romans 11:16-20 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: Message: Grafting is an agricultural technique used for propagating fruit trees. It involves cutting a section of the stem of one tree and inserting it into the stock of another tree. A part of the tree providing the stock must be cut off before grafting can take place. This technique is used in o...