Never let anyone tell you what you can or cannot
do, least of all the experts. No one is a better expert on you than yourself.
2016 is a year when the experts showed us that no matter what expertise they
had, faith in one’s God and in one’s abilities is more accurate than any
expert’s opinion.
When the English
Premiership Season opened in
August of 2015, the experts wrote off any chance of Leicester
City ever wining the Premiership and rated their chances as 5000 to 1 or
basically impossible. But as you and I now know, Leicester City did not pay any
heed to those ratings and plodded on and made history on May, 2nd 2016 when
Tottenham Hot Spurs failed to beat Chelsea FC and today they are the reigning
champions. And it was the same for Brexit. After Prime Minister David Cameron
succeeded in bringing President Barack Obama to the United Kingdom to campaign
in support of a no vote on Brexit, it seemed like a shoo-in for them. In fact,
Ladbrokes, the number one betting agency in the U.K. had offered a 3 to 1
chance of Brexit succeeding. The world agreed and most major leaders took it
for granted that Brexit would fail. But then the proponents did not agree.
Thanks to strong personal convictions of people like Nigel Farage and Boris
Johnson, the U.K. voted to leave the European Union and Brexit became a
reality. And now comes the third whammy. Trump. Every poll and most pollsters
predicted that not only would Trump lose but that he would lose ‘bigly’! The
Democratic National Committee carried on as of the election was a mere
formality, a coronation. Sad to say that the DNC took Americans for granted.
Again, the odds were against Trump. In fact, Renowned statistician Nate
Silver gave Hillary Clinton a nearly 93% chance of winning the
general election. What with the leaked sex talk tapes and the various women
obviously prepped to make choreographed allegations against him, the many
members of his own party that turned against him, the odds were overwhelmingly
against him. On the September 4th, 2016 issue of the political magazine, The
Hill, there was this headline ‘Obama: Next generation of Americans rejects
Trump’. But here we are, with a Trump Win. Even when others rejected him, Trump
accepted himself unapologetic and stood standing and on the November 9th,
2016 edition of the national paper USA Today, there was the following
headline ‘Obama: Americans must support President-elect Trump’. What a 360
degree turn!!! So what do we learn from the trio of Leicester, Brexit and
Trump? Many things but the most important are as follows. Nobody gave Leicester,
Brexit or Donal Trump a chance, yet they all won. And they won because their
self images never shifted because of the opinions of others. Only you and you
alone can take your selfie. Even if no one gives you a chance, believe in
yourself and give you a chance. We also learn that no matter the labels others
give you; bully, bigot, racist, extremist, be sure to label yourself winner.
How you label yourself is what will manifest in reality. Additionally, it is
now clear that since you are the one looking into the mirror, and not the
crowd, you must therefore be the one to describe yourself, not the crowd. This
is all the more true because as long as the world can not get you to change
your confession about yourself, the world will be unable to change your manifestations
about yourself. And the quality of people who surround you matters. What are
their motivations? How invested are they in you? A man who has few followers
committed to him will always defeat a man (or woman) who has many followers
interested in them. Commitment was the key in the wins of Leicester, Brexit and
Trump! And from the excellent organization of the leave lobby in the Brexit
argument, we have seen that the more you organize, the less you agonize and the
less you organize the more you agonize. Organization always defeats
agonize-ation! As I conclude this piece, let me note that many people have
asked me what my stake is in Mr. Trump’s victory. The BBC interviewed me today
on this issue as a follow up to the interview I did with them two weeks ago. I
am a strong adherent of conservative values and I believe America, a nation
founded on Christian values, has shifted from those values to please immigrants
and this does not make any sense to me. I do not agree that America
should change to suit immigrants. I believe that immigrants come to America
voluntarily and were not brought here involuntarily as slaves. That being the
case, it is they who should change to suit America or they should return to
their countries of origin. Enough of political correctness! With
apologies to no one, I pray and that we are moving from an era of political
correctness to an era of biblical correctness no matter whose ox is gored!
And Donald Trump owes this to the Bible Belt of America and evangelical
Christians who went out en masse and made him President. We proved that the
people’s choice may not succeed in becoming God’s choice, but God’s choice will
always succeed in becoming the people’s choice! Omokri is the founder of the
Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No
Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno
Omokri
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