The Insights

ANCHOR TEXT: “The wicked man flees though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion” Proverbs 28:1. Twenty years ago, Charles J, Sykes wrote a book titled: ‘A Nation of Victims’ in which he decried the victim mentality that had arisen among people in the United States. In the book’s opening pages, he describes an FBI agent who embezzled two thousand dollars and lost it while gambling in Atlantic City. The man was fired, but won reinstatement after he convinced a court that his tendency toward gambling with other people’s money was a ‘handicap’ and therefore protected under the federal law. Though with the help of a competent lawyer and fabricated evidences he won, but he lived the rest of his life in guilt, and as a victim. A victim is someone who has guilty conscience toward God and man as a result of certain mistakes or crime truly committed but not convicted. Every sin truly committed but covered up precipitates victim mentality. So, for as long as one feels gu...

“Then at last the Lord said to me, ‘You have been wandering around in this hill country long enough; turn to the north. Deu.2:2-3 Principle of The Offensive can only be ignited with audacity. You cannot be on the offensive if you are not courageous. You need courage. Fredrick the Great puts it this way, “L’audace, l’audace, et toujours l’audace” [translation: Audacity, audacity, and always audacity]. You need to put this statement in front of you, see it before you sleep and when you get up before you go out, see it again. “Audacity, audacity, and always audacity”. Courage is always expressed in the willingness to go forward. God is saying to you, go forward. Attack! You have been round this mountain long enough. The military will tell you that the most essential quality of a general will always be courage. Who is the general of your life? You are. You must have active courage. For instance, my spiritual son called me one day and was lamenting. What was his issue? There was thi...