Kingship Without Compromise

A man without purpose and direction is like a ship lost at sea. Stated another way, until you define what you live for, your presence will remain shallow and weak. Your purpose is what sets the theme and creates coherence in your life and the lives of the people you are destined to serve. What you eat, how you entertain yourself, who you marry and how you name your children are not only influenced, but actually dictated by your purpose. 

Of course, knowing your purpose is just the beginning. Then, you have to practice enough discipline, patience and devotion to support your deepest desire and minimize distractions. It can be challenging to balance these impulses - discipline, patience and devotion - but that's exactly how the journey transforms you into a king without compromise. Gradually, experience teaches you the value of your purpose, as well as the absolute necessity for you to pursue it relentlessly. 

If you're like most men today, you've been educated and socialized to believe that your intensity is uncivilized. Like a rooster in the city, there are actually laws that restrict your ability to raise your voice to signal the new day. You've probably accepted the idea that you have no choice, but to surrender your masculinity in order to be responsible and socially acceptable. I want you to know that this is not entirely true. More precisely, it is important that you get very clear that you do not have to reduce your masculine intensity just to please other people, including the people you're destined to serve. In fact, the moment you compromise your kingship in this way,  your wife, children, students, coworkers and community members will actually dismiss you as an eligible leader. If you are not hyper-sensitive and equally responsive, they will unconsciously undermine your authority at every turn. 

Herein we discover the deep significance of Personal Priesthood. Gentlemen, Personal Priesthood helps you overcome the conditioned thinking that makes you seek fulfillment through gaining the approval of your wife, your work or your community. Instead, Personal Priesthood is a practice through which you EXIST in a perpetual state of fulfillment, independent from how other people feel, think or respond. This is only possible because you are 100% aligned with Ori. Ori is your identity and identity is destiny. And so, Personal Priesthood is the practice through which your work, marriage and friendship are transformed into opportunities to share your natural gifts and talents in order to bring about the Good Condition. Let us consider what Ifa teaches in the Holy Odu OgbeOwonrin:

It is one’s house that one should arrange well    
It is one’s way that one should tread
The way that one has never taken may make one to feel strange
Cast divination for Seseese ko lori yin,
Offspring of Agbonniregun 
I will be praised for wealth 
Hundreds are the leaves of ereyin
I will definitely have the Orí of praise
Hundreds are the leaves of ereyin
I will be praised for my wives
Hundreds are the leaves of ereyin
I will definitely have the Orí of praise
Hundreds are the leaves of ereyin
I will be praised for my children
Hundreds are the leaves of ereyin
I will definitely have the Orí of praise
Hundreds are the leaves of ereyin
I will be praised for all good things on earth
Hundreds are the leaves of ereyin 
I will definitely have the Orí of praise
Hundreds are the leaves of ereyin
- Holy Odu OgbeOwonrin

Learn more about Personal Priesthood in my course, 16 Essential Traits of Personal Priesthood. 

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