Great Institutions are being Shaken to the Ground - What Will it Take for Us to Take the Reigns of our lives?

Today, Tuesday 16th September our family learned that a close family friend, someone who called my mother "mother" was found stabbed to death in Hornsey. It has been on the news. His name was David Stoute a wonderful, wonderful man who constantly gave with love, and who always had a smile on his face and laughter in his heart. There are signs of something bigger brewing all around us.

Today, Tuesday 16th September on my InspireMe show, I spoke about taking a look around us in order to engage with what is truly going on. I spoke about something huge which is brewing throughout the world. I spoke about being able to pick up on a spiritual energy of something enormous, that is shifting and moving around us.

The Celestine Prophecy speaks about a spiritual awakening. The Bible talks about certain things coming to pass in the end days. There are signs, my good people, all around us and we need to wisen up to the tale that is been told.

Great institutions are crashing down around us. Institutions that have stood for years, symbols of a greatness that seemed untouchable, now lie in tatters, their name nothing more than a legend, gracing the history books of time. Institutions that have served the people, acquiring wealth, forging who they were on the validity of status and monetary worth. Institutions housing expensive suits and big ideas – yet where are they now.

And may I be so bold as to list all others that have had to take a bow, institutions they may not all be, but they once stood for something:

Lehman Bank
XL Airlines
Merill Lynch (Currently being bailed out)

The list will certainly go on, my friends. We are also bombarded with buzz words which seep into our subconscious further spreading fear, confining us within the cage of life which we have built around us. “Credit crunch”, "job loses", “house prices going through the roof” “rising fuel bills” and the list goes on and on and one – "the economy is in meltdown".

So look around you slowly and carefully and try to understand the bigger picture, because there is a bigger picture and the spaces in between the truth which we are not seeing clearly are things that we need to be mindful of. Pensions are no longer secure. Mortgages are no longer secure. Can we trust our banks with our investments? Can we trust others to look after our well being from employment, finances, health and wealth?

it is time for us to empower ourselves and stop relying on The Government and blaming others for the decline in our personal world. It is time for us all to find that power that exists within and re-define our lives, so that we all can live in abundance. Conformity should not be part of that package.

What is the tale that we are being told? What is the message that is there for us to see and to take action upon? What is it peoples?

For me, the message is clear. It is time for us to become self-sufficient. It is time for us to take responsibility for our lives. It is time for us to empower our children with more than just the basics we feed them. It is time for us to do what is in our hearts. To reach for the stars, to make changes within our lives, for the betterment and the progression of our lives and existence. It is also time for us to realise what is important in our lives. The simple basics of love, family and friends. Of helping and supporting our fellow human being. Of love and compassion, because when everything else is stripped away from us and those great institutions fall taking our money, our jobs our livelihood - we only have the love of close family and friends holding our hands.

It is time for us to relinquish all those labels which confine and dictate who we are. It is time for us to shrug off those pegs which put us into one category of talent and skill, limiting us in terms of how we see ourselves and how we define who we truly are.

We are neither one nor the other – we are all. We are many things and we are much more. It is time for the carpenter, the painter, the road sweeper the academic, the professional, the secretary to realise that their vocation is a universal one and that within them are many dimensions of being. Take away the labels and we all can be whoever and whatever we want to be. Tap into that reservoir of talent and skill that lays dormant. Tape into the psyche of who you really are. There are signs, people out there telling us that we no longer are in control of anything in our lives. God ultimately has the final call, but he has also given us a plate of choices. He has not given us the funnel of limitation and complacency.

So what will it take in your life for you to realise, you must take the reigns of your own life? Will it take for the demise of another global institution to rattle your shackles a little?

Don’t you get it? Empires and institutions are not only going down, those left standing are frightened, their foundation is being rocked by something much bigger than they can envisage. Here today, gone tomorrow. We no longer have tomorrow on hand to serve us well, we only have today.

The Great Mosiah Marcus Garvey who has been quoted as being one of the greatest mass leaders of all time states:

“Up you mighty Race. You can accomplish what you will”

Regardless of race or creed – his message is pertinent to all.

Marcus Garvey was the first man of colour in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement…the first man on a mass scale…to make the Negro feel that he was somebody….
Martin Luther King Jr – Civil Rights Leader


All the freedom movements that are taking place.. in America were initiated by the work and teachings of Marcus Garvey.
Malcolm X. Muslim Minister

Marcus Garvey talks about many things in the book “Marcus Garvey Said….” Compiles and Edited by Ken Jones

He talks about intelligence. Here he states:

“Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carried the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slaver because while others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind. When God Almighty made man in His own image and likeness, it wasn’t the physical, it was the mind that was like God.”


Economic Power

“In a word, my message to you is: Develop yourselves into a commercial and industrial people, and you will have laid the foundation for racial greatness (1919).

Power

The only protection against injustice in man is power – physical, financial and scientific”

Organisation

Get organised; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organised and you will compel the world to respect you. If the world fails to give you consideration because you are black men…four hundred millions of you shall, through organisation, shake the pillars of the universe and bring down creation, even as Samson brought down the temple upon his head and upon the heads of the Philistines

..get armed with organization; get armed by coming together….That is your weapon. Their weapon…has been big guns and explosive shells, your weapon must be universal organisation.

There is no-where in Marcus Garvey’s teachings that purport retreat nor giving up. His message always clearly talks about rising up in our own power and strength And marching forward as such. Not relying on others, nor expecting the world to give us what we think it owes us, because we are owed nothing. But he talks about utilising the resources within us.

I could draw so many things from different leaders who grace our history books of time, whose message is one of becoming self-sufficient, of finding inner strength to step outside the conformity box and live life as we should. Live the life which our spirits yearn and cry out for. We must learn to honour this place of authenticity from which our spirit cries out for us to find our truth and live our truth. We can only do this if we follow our purpose and live the dream we were meant to experience and enjoy.

Too many of us are living lives of complacency, fear guiding our every footstep, always living on the periphery of existence itself.

The time has certainly come to move forward with our own personal agenda. Look around you peoples and watch as the great institutions coming crashing down. Look around you and understand what is truly important in your life. Look around you and search your heart for your values and beliefs. Look around you and take back control and responsibility:

“Up you mighty Race
You can Accomplish what you Will”

Don’t wait until the world crashes down around you before you realise what you have truly lost….The power and choice to make a real difference in your own life and follow your purpose, accountable to no-one but God and yourself.