THE UNIVERSITY OF THE TAIL
A Message by Dr. D. K Olukoya

Text: Deuteronomy 28:13

“And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:”

The fact that the Bible says ‘head, tail, above and beneath’ means that those positions are available to be occupied by those who want to occupy them and these positions must be occupied by somebody. I have seen all kinds of things in life. I have seen somebody without a tongue, legs, hands, eyes, ears and nose but I have not seen anyone without the head. The head contains the computer that runs the whole body. The head is always on top; therefore God said that your position should be that of the head and not the tail.

·        The tail is close to the anus, closer to excreta.

·        The tail unlike the head has no teeth to defend it.

·        The tail can be cut off without any consequence, this is why some people are removed from their jobs and no one is helping them whereas if the spirit of the head is upon you, it will cause everyone working in that place to be restless until they bring you back to your position

In the University of the tail, there are so many departments but there is something that qualifies a man for that school and until you receive that qualification that is when other things follows and that thing is what the Bible calls ‘attitude’

The secret to a more successful and happy life is not changing you circumstances because sometimes you cannot change it. It is not to control what other people are doing because sometimes you cannot control them also. The secret to a happier and successful life is to change one thing which you have absolute authority. ‘ATTITUDE’

It has been proven that people with positive outlook have a happier and more successful life and they also have greater satisfaction. The reason for this is very simple; your attitude has an incredible power to shape your life; so you have the power to choose your outlook. Negative thinkers will always see negativity; fearful people will always see things that will scare them. That your attitude is the lenses you need to see yourself, people around and the world at large. Negative attitude is what is making so many people to think that they have big and strong enemies around them.

Our attitude controls our lives, it remains the greatest asset but we may not be using it. Therefore if you want to change your life, then, change your attitude. This is the greatest discovery that human beings have found; they found that they can utter their lives by uttering their attitudes because:

v  A positive attitude is your passport for a better tomorrow

v  Your attitude is the window to your world

v  Your attitude determines your actions 

v  Your attitude can affect your future positively or negatively

v  Your attitude magnetizes people to you or repels people from you

v  Your attitude is the liberian of your past

v  It is the speaker of your present

v  And it is the prophet of your future.

The power of attitude cannot be over emphasized. You see, knowing Jesus as your Lord and personal savior is the most important thing in life but next to having a positive attitude because that attitude may make or break you. It can make you friends or make you enemies, it can make you happy or make you very miserable, it can make you a success or a failure. Some people think that the world stings and that attitude will make them to fail. The person with the negative attitude will say ‘I cannot do it’ but the person with positive attitude will always say ‘I can do it’

Attitude is practically on everything. If you have a negative attitude you will always dwell on problems, you will always find fault in others while the person with positive attitude will always find something good in the life of another. The person with negative attitude will always look out for what is missing while the person with positive attitude will always be counting his/her blessings. The person with the positive attitude will always see possibilities unlike the person with negative attitude.

Every person that is born into this world comes with mental window but as the person begins to grow, that window becomes very dim or very clear depending on the kind of attitude they have. To be honest to you, nobody can run away from problems; anywhere you run to, you will always meet problems because life itself is a problem.

The story of Paul and Silas is a good example of positive attitude because the Bible says ‘rejoice in the Lord always’. They had every reason to doubt God that sent them to do his work and breakdown into tears but all through the night, they were praising God throughout and the earthquake of the Lord came and deliver them from the prison because of their positive attitude. Negative attitude had caused a lot of problems for people today. When some people are in trouble, they get angry and take unnecessary actions or cry all day. This is because they have negative attitude towards life.

When your attitude is negative towards prayer, heaven puts you in the school of failures because any time you are praying with worry and anxieties in your heart, then you are not praying. Your attitude has impact in the lives of people around you. It is more important than money, your appearance, your education and any other thing in life. It is your attitude that makes you persevere when the going is tough. The difference between the good day and the bad day is your attitude.

I am praying for you right now, every attitude of failure in your life is damaged in the name of Jesus. 

Do you know that happiness is an attitude? You either make yourself happy or sad because attitude is always your choice, so it is a decision.

Once you develop a negative attitude, you have written an entrance examination into the school of the tail. So you need to make up your mind to change your attitude and develop a positive attitude. 

Close your eyes and pray the following prayers:

1.      Dark arrows fired into my mind, back fire in the name of Jesus.

2.      My soul, return to your resting place in Christ in the mighty name of Jesus