The General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor Williams Kumuyi, has called on students to aim beyond success and seek significance in life......Read The Full Article>>.....Read The Full Article>>
The clergy spoke recently in Ogun State, when he paid an unscheduled visit to the Deeper Life High School, Lagos Campus.
The founder of the Deeper Life Bible Church and the proprietor of the school was at the campus in company of his wife, Esther and Dr. Larry Ross, the founder and CEO of A. Larry Ross Communications, a Dallas-based full-service agency. Kumuyi, who said any student can become significant, shared how he attained excellence in his career. According to him, each student should aim at success, stand out and work towards significance. “I will give you three words – success, stand out and significance. “Many students stop at success. They take exams and they pass the exam. They’ve taken the certificate and they are happy with that. No, success should be the foundation and the springboard from which you launch out and stand out. You succeed right.
“After success, you must work to stand out. There are many who after they have attained success, they do not plan and work to stand out. It takes continuous and serious commitment to stand out in the crowd.
“The third thing is to seek significance. When you are significant, you’re almost indispensable. You’re doing something you know how to do and you have a goal, a purpose for getting it done.” Giving exposition on his life trajectory, the respected clergy man said: “During my days in school, I focused on success. Later, in my advanced level, I concentrated on Pure and Applied Maths. I brought that to focus. Eventually, I got to the university and I set these three words as benchmarks for myself.
“I got that through the grace of God, prayer, and leaning on the Lord. But, what if I just prayed, but failed to study my modern algebra?
“What if I fasted and I didn’t study my complex variables? If I’m born again, but lazy and didn’t study very well, then, I would have reaped what I sowed. “If you don’t sow anything into your head, and you go for exams, what comes out? Nothing! If you sow a little and you go for exams, what comes out will be little. But when you sow much, what do you reap? Much.” “You have to be studious. You have the books, you have the brain, make your connection between the book and the brain.
“You have the lessons on one hand; you have the lectures on the other hand, bring in the learning ability into play. Kumuyi, who said he still practices rigorous study, encouraged the students to be teachable.
“You must be teachable. There are students that come to the class with the attitude of I know it all. When I went to the university, before I entered, I asked the head boy of my school who was done with year one for all his notes. I got the admission in June 1964. Between June 1964 and September 1964, I read through all his notes.
“So, I wasn’t coming to the school, I didn’t say I knew it all. I was still teachable. “I made it a point of duty to follow my teachers in their classes. Sometimes, you discover you’re an A student, but when you get to class you don’t pay attention. Don’t do that. We must be teachable.”
The DLHS proprietor also tasked the students and staff to set themselves for uniqueness, be diligent, seek excellence and be noble.
Expatiating on nobility, he said: “As a student in 1957, I was in class one. I was just in school. 1958, I was just in school. “Daddy said he was sending me to secondary school, and I went. I went to school because of him. But, I woke up somewhere around 1958 and I said to myself that I’m not here for daddy, but for myself. From that time, things turned around in my life. I became totally new and different.
“By 1959, I wrote my goal in academics and I put it in front of my bed. Other students made mockery of me. But, I didn’t listen to them. I became a new and noble student and the Lord honoured that diligence.”
He called them to be tenacious and not allow anything to suggest to them that they are not capable. Speaking on Bible characters, who were significant, the pastor urged them to study the life of Samuel, Timothy, Hosea, Daniel, Elisah, Nathaniel, and Titus, who distinguished themselves in their fields.
