By Francis Kwabena Cofie, GNA
Accra, Jan. 01, GNA – Reverend Blessing Mensah, a Senior Pastor at the New Covenant Assemblies of God church, Darkuman-Nyamekye, has urged Christians and Ghanaians to avoid lifestyles that sets them back in their spiritual and socio-economic lives.
He said, “We must all make Christ the centre of all that we do and live lives that pleased him, if we seek to progress in our goals and ambitions in the incoming year.”
He encouraged Christians to re-examine their relationship with Christ and embrace salvation as long as they remained human.
Rev. Mensah who gave the advice in an interview with the Ghana News Agency said, “As human as we are, we need to have a personal relationship with God,” and that “There is something spiritual about man that we cannot overlook, necessitating a close relationship with God.”
He said in trying to avoid things that set people back, there was the need for them to redeem the time, by realigning their thoughts and ways with Christ.
Rev. Mensah further admonished Ghanaians to cultivate a positive mental attitude in everything they did in the new year, as the Bible says, “As a man thinks, so he is.”
Furthermore, he urged the citizenry to pursue education either formally or informally, to better their work and life in general in view of the changing dynamics in modern times.
“Pursue education in the formal or informal sense that would make you sellable in whatever economic venture you are involved in,” he said.
“As we enter the new year, we must diversify our skills and expand our means of livelihood to endure unforeseen potential challenges we might encounter, he said.
“To withstand any militating forces in our economic ventures, we must broaden our scope of operation in order not to be swallowed up by unfavorable market forces,” adding that the trend of modern economic dynamics required that people diversify their skills and products to broaden their clientele base.
The man of God advised the youth to pursue relevant skills in demand that ties in with their potential, saying, “This would make you sellable on the job market.”
GNA
Edited by Christabel Addo