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KNOWING GOD - a sermon preached in Nyagatare by Dr Rob Crickett

Nyagatare is in North Eastern Rwanda. Sermond was held on May 3rd, 2005.

Thank you for your very warm welcome. In the evening of last night Bishop Bernard Munanira and his wife and others were sitting around the table talking about what we might do today? The bishop recommended that I do some teaching on how to walk with Jesus Christ; how to walk in the kingdom of heaven; how to walk ready for the Lord to come back to the world.

I think one of the best things to remember is that if we can live in heaven here on earth, then we will live our best both now and forever. Sometimes when we are very lonely and we are quite depressed in ourselves, we bow our heads. Sometimes when the pain is too much on us, we hide ourselves away completely and we just roll up into a little ball and we don’t want anybody to find us.

But Jesus wants us to be a whole person and Jesus wants to make us grow. Amen? And Jesus puts his Spirit into us. Amen? And when he puts his Spirit into us and we start to come to church and we listen to the pastor’s instruction and some of the instruction is a little bit hard on us, but the pastor says, “There is one inside of you who is greater than the world and he that is in the world (1 John 4:4)!” And you believe him; and make a little streeeetch to that idea.

You can stretch a little bit. Not a lot. But you can grow just a little bit. For example, you keep coming to church, and you adjust yourself with a little discipline, and after a while you think to yourself, “Yes, I have grown a little bit, just like the pastor said, but that’s enough for me. I don’t need to stretch any more than this that I have already done.”

We think, “I am a Christian now, and I can look at all of those people who are not stretched and they are different from me. I am so wonderful and so good, I have stretched a little bit.”

But then the Lord says to you, “You must achieve even more. You must become a new person. You must not merely be the old person who has stretched in his or her attitude a little bit. The old person must actually pass away and a whole new person must be born.”

But you think, “Yes, but I have already stretched enough!”

He says, “No, no, no. I am going to stretch you even more.”

And God brings you into situations that challenge you and you start to stretch, like all your world is being stretched and strained just to accommodate the new things and the new ways of thinking.

You think to yourself, “Oh, don’t do that to me God. Don’t stretch me, Lord! It’s better like I was before. Before you ever came into my life. I was happy how I was...well, more or less happy. You know God, sin is not so bad. It’s better than this stretching you’re doing to me!

But the Lord says, “No, no. Listen to your heart. Come and stretch out here with Me, where I am.”

After a little you yield and you do stretch a little bit. You start to trust God. Then after a little while you think to yourself, “This is actually quite good! Life is actually better out here than before. Even though the stretch was pretty strange and painful even, it was all worth it.”

Then one day the pastor comes to you and says, “You need to be filled with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and talking in tongues.” One day in a service, the Holy Spirit was really powerful and he did that and all of a sudden.... arghh!...a big stretch! And you even stretch in your head just trying to get all your ideas together about this amazing new experience in God...arghh!

But when it’s all over you think to yourself, “Ah, now I have found Jesus Christ! Now I am really a Christian. Now I can relax and just live my life in peace and quiet.” But then one day your pastor comes along and says, “I need people to come with me into Tanzania to do mission.”

You put your hand up, “Hey! Take me! Take me!” So you go on the mission team and the mission stretches you even more! You come back and tell everybody, “This is how it was in Tanzania! We walked everywhere! And we did things in the Holy Spirit that stretched us everywhere! Yeah! It was so way cool. And people got saved, and healed, and the pastor did this amazing deliverance on one guy out in the bush. Oh, God is awesome guys! Really!”

But then later on, the Lord comes and whispers in your heart saying, “Now, I am calling you to become like a pastor.” And you think to yourself, “Ah, no, not me! No, I am nobody!”

But the Lord says, “I can do this in you. You can’t do this in your own strength, but I can do it in you if you will stretch even more.”

You count the cost in yourself, weighing up all your skills and experience and knowledge and trying hard to overlook all your shortcomings and you say, “But Lord, this is as much stretch as I have got!”

And the Lord says, “Oh, no, no, no. I am the one who is stretching now. If you will just stay with Me, I will stretch and you will stretch with me.”

You say, “Okay God. I accept, Lord. I am now going to be a shepherd. OK, so change me so that I can look after my sheep. Bring these sheep to me, Lord. Bring it on.”

Then you are praying and you are praying and the Lord is stretching you into a place where you never thought you had so much stretch. You are really becoming a person of God now ... a responsible person in the kingdom of heaven here on earth. You have your own mission to do, and you’re beginning to do it.

You’re coming through the town and you’re seeing the people who have no stretch and the glory of God comes onto you and you can now say, “Listen hear people, the Lord Jesus Christ can make you greater than you are. He can help you to solve your problems and not make the same mistakes in the future. He can bring God’s glory into your life, and you can become a whole new person in him if you’re willing.”

Now you start to work with the bishop and you start to work in all of the churches, preaching and healing and then you get great breakthroughs and the Lord stretches you even more...even more...and even more...and just when you thought you had no stretch left in you, even more!

Then God takes you and he makes you into a heavenly citizen. You’ve been doing a pastor’s works in the world but just as a saved human being of the earth. Now he stretches you every which way. Amen?

Amen! Glory to God! And this is who we all are, stretched people of God, and heavenly citizens now. Jesus can stretch us to anywhere we want to be! He can take us anywhere. Amen? This is who we are becoming.

Now we are going to talk about finding God. Now that you know that you can be stretched to a place where you can find God. In the beginning seek God. We don’t know him, and we want to find him. Then  we believe about God, we believe in God. But then we decide to make Jesus the Lord of our life and we come to a place where we actually find God; and God also finds us. We know God, and we know that he knows us personally. Finding God is a most wonderful thing that can happen to us. But then what follows after that is that we start to reveal God to other people, just as Jesus revealed the Father to us when he was on the earth among us. Revealing God is the most excellent thing to do. Of all the jobs we could choose from in the world, revealing God to people is the highest job there is.

You show people by God’s power that they can be more than what they think they are. God can turn us all into more and we can do more than what we already believe.

THE MAN WHO OVERCAME THE WORLD

When I first wanted to find God myself, God led me to one man. This man was a very unusual man. He said that he had found God. Not just God in the Word and not just loving God, but in himself he had been changed so that God and he in his person were able to be like the same person.

He would sit all day and he would sit all night. He was completely soaked in the world and yet he was not of it at all. If he didn’t eat, it didn’t matter to him. If he didn’t drink, it didn’t matter to him. If the mouse came and started to eat his toes, it didn’t matter to him. He was completely lost in God and was completely disinterested in his body and the world.

I thought to myself, “This is a wonderful thing. How does a human being experience so much closeness of God? This is just different from reading about God. This is being made into a Godly person by God himself.”

Sometimes in our dreams when we are sleeping at night, God comes into our mind and we feel that we are filled with God, don’t we? Then we wake up in the morning and we are just a little ordinary person again, but we know God has touched our minds somewhere.

When we become Christians, we start to understand that God can completely move into our self, and so I started to do what this man did. He told me what he did in order to know God like this.

He said, “I asked myself one question. When I was a young boy of fourteen, one of my uncles died and I went to the funeral. Here was my uncle laid out for the funeral and I was just a young boy, just watching. I asked myself the question, ‘What is it that dies? Where is the person that dies?’

“I went home to my house where I was staying and I really wanted to know the answer to this question. So I laid down on the floor and I held my breath until I could find the answer: ‘What was the thing that was going to die?’

“I held my breath for only about half a minute and then something from within me sprang forward and it seemed to fill the whole universe, and it was also filled with the presence of God.

“From that time onwards I have just been sitting in peace with this which I am in God. From that time on I just sat in peace and God who was in me, and I who was in God, overcame all the world quite effortlessly.”

When he was about the age of forty-five he developed stomach cancer and he died. Someone came to him and said, “You have cancer. Doesn’t it hurt you?”

He said, “No. Pain is just a pressure.”

“Does it matter to you that you are going to die?” they asked.

He said, “No. When God is so much in you, there is no difference between being alive and being dead. Death is just a word...a reflection...it’s not real.”

So I want to end that story now by saying that there is a way of knowing God intimately because God can fill us up completely in our self. We can sit in God and God can sit in us.

We can merge the one into the other, and it can make a difference in how we relate to everything, even the world itself.

But God doesn’t call many men and women to live like that man, so I want to show you the more common way that God calls people to know God. Yet, even then, in the common way, many people spend time being rapt in God, even if only for a few moments while they are worshiping.

A MORE COMMON WAY TO KNOW GOD

If we open up the Bible and we look for perfect men who have known God, we see that we find Enoch in Genesis 5:24. He was perfect and he pleased God, and God took him from the world.

In the book of second Kings (2:11), we see Elijah—and Elijah was perfect; and God took him from the world.

Both of these men were perfect according to God’s idea of perfection—they pleased him because they perfectly did God’s will. But, as perfect as they were, both of these two men didn’t do as good a work as Jesus did when he was here.

Jesus came to save the world from its sin, but neither Enoch nor Elijah did that work. Amen?

We know that for Jesus to do the work of saving the world from sin, Jesus the man must have at least been as perfect as Enoch and Elijah. Amen? Otherwise either Enoch or Elijah could have saved the world from its sin. But they didn’t, and couldn’t. God didn’t give them that dominion and authority, even though they were spiritually perfect and walking in all of God’s perfect love that they could.

So now we ask ourselves, “Forgetting Enoch and Elijah for a moment, as spiritually perfect as they were, how did Jesus find God?”

Jesus was the Son of God but he was born a little baby. He didn’t go to school every day saying, “I am the Son of God!” He went to school saying, “I am Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary, and I have brothers and sisters in this school also.” He didn’t really find out about being the Son of God until God fully revealed that to him at his baptism, when God said the words to him about how he also pleased him.

So we know that there is Jesus the human being. He is growing up into the perfection of God. Before he can become the “Son of God” who is saving the world from its sin, he must first become the “perfect man” because the ordinary man is not capable of doing the work of saving the world. He must at least become the same as, if not better than, Enoch and Elijah.

So we look at Jesus and we ask ourselves, “When did he become perfect? When he became perfect, he must have already completely found God. And if he has found God, how does he demonstrate that he has found God? Because he must be able to have found God first of all, if he is then going to do the work of God.”

If your pastor sends you to Tanzania to go on mission, you must at least have found your pastor and been in discussion with him. Amen?

So when we find Jesus, we look to him and say, “What is he doing with the heavenly Father? Because if we can do what he is doing with the heavenly Father, then we will be drawn into knowing God also—in just the same way as Jesus is knowing God.”

When God took Enoch, Enoch “pleased” God. The Bible uses the word “pleased” to mean “perfect in God’s eyes”. But Enoch is perfect and yet he is not given the job to save the world. As soon as he becomes perfect...whoosh! He is taken from the world.

At the same time that Elijah is taken from the world, we know that Elijah has reached perfection too. To be taken from the world in fiery chariots of God’s power is the same as saying they are spiritually perfect in God’s love.

Now, let’s come into the book of Matthew. Let’s have a read from Matthew 3:16 and 17. In English it says,

And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

We see here that God is “pleased,” but this is a special pleasing. If Jesus was a man or woman like us, we would expect him then to be taken by God to heaven. But something different happens here.

Jesus comes up out of the water, and then while he is standing in the water the heavens open above him and the Spirit of God comes to him and this is the start of his new mission. For the first time in the world now, we see a perfect human being doing an extended mission of God.

We can also understand that when the Spirit of God comes on him, the Spirit of God gives His vision for that mission.

We are standing in a church and it has been built because somebody had the vision to build the church here. It comes into your imagination and God touches it and you believe God is going to help to make this happen.

So here is Jesus and he is receiving the vision from God to save the world, and with the vision comes the Holy Spirit’s power to do that. With that vision comes the full remembrance, “I am the Son of God.”

And now the human Jesus mind and the Son of God mind become the same mind. He is now Jesus on earth, but he extends right up into the heavens to the Father as well. Amen?

He knows God. He not only came from God, but as a human being he has grown up into the normal range of knowing God that we all can grow into. So, he is the perfect person to ask our question: “How do we find God?”

We look at Jesus and we find that he does only one or two things to tell us. Come with me into Romans chapter 1, verse 17. In English it says,

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

So we have found here in Paul’s writings and experience that Jesus’ relationship with the Father, which is wholly righteous—right with the Father—is pure faith. Amen?

Now, if we come into Deuteronomy, in chapter 30 we see God making human beings choose. God puts a high value on us making a choice. In verse 19, God says,

“I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life.”

When Jesus ministers in the world he says the same thing, “Choose the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 13:44) In the beginning of his ministry he just says, “Choose me. Choose me. I came from heaven. I am the way to the Father. Choose me.”

After he sees that the Jews have a hard heart, he says, “If you can’t choose me, at least choose the Father because of my works.”

So we start to see here that the righteous, they live in faith but they must make decisions.

Now come with me into John 5 and let’s look at verse 19. In English it says,

“Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.”

That tells us that we are righteous and we live by faith, but faith is not just hoping that God is going to do something. Faith is making decisions. When we look at Jesus, we see that when Jesus makes decisions he only does what the Father shows him to do.

So we ask ourselves the question, “If we can do only what the Father shows us to do, can we find the Father? Can we find God in that way?”

We can’t look for God under the table, amen? We can’t look for the Father in our pockets, amen? We can’t go to some place in the whole earth and find the Father living there, amen? We can go to the moon and we will not find the Father there. We can go to the ends of the stars and we will not find the Father there either.

It might even be possible to go to heaven and not find the Father, because we find the Father in faith. The Father shows us Himself in the world, but we do not come to actually hold Him until we hold Him in faith, and that faith is in our heart, amen? We do not find the Father by sight or by sound or by touch. We find him by faith and in faith; and that faith which lives in our heart.

So there must be something that we can find in our heart that shows us the Father. Now if we come into the Book of Matthew and turn to chapter 13 and verse 3, we hear Jesus telling the parable about sowing seed. In English it reads,

“A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.”

Scripture provides the explanation we are hungry to hear. It says that some of the seed falls into a place where the devil comes along and just takes away that seed.

You might come to wonderfully rich meetings like this and then you go away from here and somebody says to you something that causes argument and you feel that all the blessing has just been taken away from you.

A good example of that is in healing. You come to a meeting and you are prayed for, and then you receive healing and you are healed.

You tell your friends, “I have been healed.”

Somebody says to you, “You have not been healed. It will come back, you watch. I don’t believe those Christians. If healing was so easy, why did your father die? If healing was so easy for you, why did you lose your baby?” And the devil comes along and snatches away your seed—the hope that was in the promise of God concerning your situation.

Then Jesus also explains that sometimes the seed is put here and the weeds grow up around it. You know, you have a weed here in Rwanda that back home we think it is a very special flower—it’s the marigold flower. But outside the door of this church there I can see one plant that I think definitely is a weed both here and back home in Australia also. But either way, when the weed grows up around your seed, it is all of the cares of the world that come in and smother your potential to bloom.

For example, you say, “I want to go on mission with pastor into Tanzania, but I can’t do it because I’m too busy here with my family.

Never mind, maybe next time I will go.” The next time comes along and the pastor says, “We are going over to Congo. Will you come with us?” And you make up another excuse because of the cares of the world that are taking away your focus on God’s work and what God has for your life. You can see after a while that the cares of the world are taking you away from your blessing. The weeds are robbing you of what God has for you.

But there is one seed that when it is sown into good soil it produces very well. Let’s have a look at verse 31 in that chapter 13. In English it says,

“The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”

What we can see here is Jesus saying to us that when we are living by faith we are producing. We are producing in our decisions, and we are producing in our decisions because God and ourselves are making a seed together. And whatever God makes as a seed, it will harvest God’s kind of fruit.

That is such a special thing that I just said.

Come back into heaven with me and listen to the conversation between the Father and the Son.

The Father says, “I need to plant a seed into the universe that has become corrupted by Satan.”

The Son of God says, “I will be that seed! Send me and plant me into that place!”

The Father says, “You must not do your will, you must only do my will.”

The Son of God agrees and together they work out the plan. When they have made the plan, then the Son of God makes the decision, “I am now going.”

The Son of God plans it and he comes and he is sown into the womb of Mary—she is a virgin in that she has never before had a baby. He has made the decision with the Father. He is the Father’s salvation seed and he is this little mustard seed that is going to grow into the kingdom of heaven in the earth itself.

So we can look in heaven and we can see that the Son of God is with the Father. The Son of God is in the presence of the Father and together they make their faith decision.

When Jesus grows up he teaches people, “I want you to make faith decisions with the Father. The Father will put his Spirit in you. You will be able to have fellowship with the Father.”

He says in Scripture, “The Father and I will both come to you. You will have fellowship with us both and in the power of the Holy Spirit.”

When we receive into our heart’s love this Father, and this Son, and this Holy Spirit, and this Jesus the perfect man, we have this power that comes upon us and which Scripture calls the Holy Spirit and fire (Matthew 3:11). The power is that we have the power to enter into our faith believing and in this place we of believing we can meet God; we can find God himself.

FINDING GOD WITHIN YOUR BELIEVING

We are going to do that now, so that you can have this experience of finding God, and of God finding you in your faith believing. Then, when you have found God and you know God is touching you, you can have other experiences where you can simply be still in the presence of God; or when you can be filled with God; you can be at rest in God; or, you can be very active and preaching and shouting in God; or you can even be like that man who just sat in God and gave only scant attention to the world.

There are two ways that God touches us. With the Holy Spirit he makes us into the sail of a boat and he blows into us—whoosh!—and moves us, and we are moved by the Holy Spirit and the giftings of the Holy Spirit are moved in us. When God does this we become footwashers, servants, movers and shakers in the kingdom of heaven. We change things, and we change them by God’s power.

But then God moves us in another way also. He fills us like a bottle and we are not moving. We are completely still and we are filled in Him. If we open our eyes and we look at the world, all of God is looking through us and we are at rest in God.

So God gives us these two ways to be in him, and they are both complimentary of each other: rest, and movement; tranquillity, and activity; pure worship in rapture, and pure work in the world of things and people.

If we want to do a mission, first we must come into rest. We are like Jesus who comes away from the people to be with the Father— and he might come away from them for several days at a time.

It might take a few days for him just to settle down into being at peace with God; to move away from being so active in God; and to let his body and his mind just settle down into the rest of God. When he is in the rest of God, then he is able to speak to God and they can together develop a plan.

And you are going to do this now. You are going to think of something that you want to do, or something that you want to have just in your human self. Then we are going to let God come and touch that so then your program also becomes God’s program. When your program has become God’s program, faith comes alive in that and it then becomes the mustard seed.

When it becomes the mustard seed you are starting to do the will of God. You and God are working this together in a strategic partnership.

The world might try and come against you as you live out whatever it was that you and God planned to do together, but because you have developed this program in faith you have the power of God to protect you as you move through it in actual living. The perfection of God’s love will always succeed—and God’s mustard seed is a seed of the Father’s perfect love.

Once we see these kinds of outcomes in our lives, then we start to see the ministry of Jesus differently. We see that from the time of his baptism he is drawing people in to know God so that they can have the power to make a program with God. When we are making programs in our heart with God and we are living out those programs, we become perfect. And that fulfils the highest value in the holy bible.

If you go to your bible and have a look at Matthew chapter 5, verse 48, you’ll see there that Jesus is saying,

“You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Jesus can say that because he is perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect. But what is the way to be perfect? That’s the burning question in our hearts today: how to be spiritually perfect; and how to find ways to help others to be spiritually perfect like God.

Come into your heart in your faith and develop a program. Let God touch your believing in that program and then live out that program. Then you will find even if you are a young person or old person, boy or girl, you will find that perfection will start to operate in your life. Now you are on the road like Enoch and Elijah and Jesus.

If you do that one time today, you will have this moment of perfection. God will touch you and you will be with God. If you do this two times next week, you will have these two times of perfection. If you do this ten times over the next month, you will have all those times of perfection to your credit.

As we practice in our hearts, making programs with God, we become perfect, and we learn to take God’s perfection into more and more places in our lives until we have gone into all of the places in our lives that have the potential to make us perfect.

At that point we come to the place where God can say to us, too, “This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.”

So, let us do this now. Let’s look now into the Scripture at Matthew chapter 18, verse 18 through 20 in your Bible. We see a special formula here from Jesus. He says,

“Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

To bind something here on the earth means to stop something from happening. We stop it happening by heaven’s power to stop things happening.

To loose something here on the earth is to create some new thing here on the earth. We create that new thing with heaven’s power to create it. An example of that is heaven’s power to create the mustard seed into a mustard tree. The plants grow not by the earth’s power, but by heaven’s power creating them.

So I am asking you to think of something that you want to do, or something that you want to have. It will probably be something that you want to loose here in the earth and if God touches your desire, then God turns that into a heavenly empowered seed and our Father will make it happen by heavenly power.

Turn to Mark chapter 11 and to verse 24. In English we see here,

“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”

This is what you are going to do. Remember, you are wanting to find God, and one of the ways that Jesus lets us find God is by loosing something here in the earth. This is what’s going to happen. I am wanting something. Let’s say, “I want to build a big church here and it has electricity, water, a concrete floor, plenty of chairs, a good roof, and plenty of shade.” Let’s just think, “This is what I want.”

Jesus says, “If you believe you have received that thing you just thought of, it will be done for you.”

If you believe that God has loosed it in heaven for you, then it will arrive here in the earth for you. Then the people will come together and we will find, “Oh, that church you dreamed of back then, it’s starting to be built now.”

“So now, I am going to get one friend and tell that person what it is that I am believing for. Then I am going to believe that God has given this to me,” and my friend is going to believe that God has already released that for me also. We are both believing that God has given this thing to me.

Together, with myself and my friend both believing that I am receiving this thing from God, we are going to keep believing until God invades our believing.

When God invades our believing, we will know God and we will know him in our faith, amen? And he will touch our believing and turn it into his seed and we will feel him do that.

Then we can stand up and say, “Praise God! he has touched my believing!”

And you can speak to him, “My Father, you have touched my believing,” and you are in the direct presence of God.

At that moment, he is holding you and you are holding him, and you know that he is touching your faith and he is filling your mind and his blessing is pouring into you.

At that moment, in your heart you know, “Yes, this is God.”

It is more important to find God than to even do the works of God. To do the works of God without ever having found God is to put things backwards.

But let’s do this now. You are going to tell your friend, “This is what I am believing for.”

Then the two of you now can start believing that God has now done that for you, and you will quietly keep believing until God enters into your believing. Then, when that has happened, your friend will also know that God has entered into his or her believing for you. You will both have God’s confirmation.

Okay, let’s begin.

Heavenly Father, you have heard my Word and you have sent me here into this place, Lord. I pray now in Jesus’ name that you will honor your Word, Lord, and you will enter into their believing and you will release the heavenly power to make their desire loosed here in the world. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Now you can begin—the first person and then second person. It should only take a few minutes per person, but take as much time as you need.

AFTERWARDS

God has put his power into your believing. He has put his power into your believing in the same way as he put his power into Jesus’ believing. God is no respecter or persons, amen? God will honor all faith, amen? We cannot please God unless we are using faith. Amen?

And so, what God the Father has done with Jesus Christ, he is doing now with you also. He has touched your faith and he has touched Jesus’ faith—it is the same faith.

Therefore, now you should remember what you have desired and what God has touched. Remember it in your mind. Remember it in your heart. Write it in your bible: “Today the Father’s perfect love has touched this particular desire in my heart, and because he has turned it into a divine seed, it will happen. Not only that, for a moment I knew God intimately, and I savoured his presence and his perfect love.”

Then when it happens, when this thing comes into your life, come back to your bible and you can write underneath what you just wrote: “Yes, it has happened now! According to my bible faith and God’s promise to touch my faith, and by his perfect love by faith I planted my seed and it has now produced its crop, and I have this thing for which God and I made the program.”

When you do this in your moment of prayer, let God touch you. When God can touch you, you can know His presence. When you stretch that time together out into a little meditation, in this way you can know God.

How can parents and coaches fill a young athlete’s “emotional tank?”

Coaches need to praise kids five times before they provide one piece of constructive criticism, says David Jacobson, a spokesman for the Positive Coaching Alliance, based at Stanford University.

“We liken a child’s emotional tank to a car’s gas tank. When the tank is full, it runs well. When it’s drained, it doesn’t run well,” he explains.

To fill a child’s or teen’s tank, parents and coaches need to provide a steady flow of specific, truthful praise, Jacobson says. When you do this, sports kids are more confident. They’re also more open to criticism and more likely to listen to what the coach or parent has to say.

“When you’re praising, you’re creating a great feeling for the child so he or she wants to continue the work required to excel as an athlete and take away all the life lessons that sports has to offer,” he says.

It’s critical to build young athletes’ confidence by praising them. For many young athletes, confidence is fragile and wavers easily depending on their performance and feedback from parents and coaches. They’re less likely to feel confident if they make mistakes or lose a match and get criticized.

One of your goals is to help your child develop a more stable level of confidence. Help them through the bumps in the confidence roller coaster.

Here’s another way to fill your kids’ emotional tanks and boost their confidence: Teach them how to praise themselves. Help your kids create a confidence resume. It may include a fun practice, a past experience, a successful game, skills improvement or good coaching. Ask your kids to review their confidence resumes before competing.

To develop confidence, kids, should have a “highlight reel” in their heads just before a game, says Robert Troutwine, Ph.D., founder of Troutwine and Associates. That’s a mental image of their most amazing play, move or moment in sports. It’s an image of a play, move or moment that makes them feel on top of the world!

Remember: The last thing we want is for your young athletes to mentally rehearse bad plays, moves or moments in sports!

Why? Because they’ll be practicing the wrong things. They’ll allow self-doubt to creep into their minds. They’ll be totally distracted!

However, playing in their heads a highlight reel that’s a totally awesome moment will help them feel confident—it will give them the feeling they can and will succeed.

If you were to say to someone in Maine that you were taking the ferry to Long Island to visit public gardens, they would look at you and think, "What public gardens?" They would conjure up images of an outpost in Casco Bay populated by people who fish for a living and have little time to garden, and by summer residents who might have a small vegetable garden, flower bed or hedgerow of rugosa rose. But public gardens? There are none to be found. It's a simple place where the word "ostentatious" isn't used very often. I like Long Island, Maine — my kind of people and my kind of gardens.

Last year, I was asked to go to the "other" Long Island, the big island adjacent to New York City, for a Day Trip. Never having been there — and based on some of the things I had read about the Hamptons, the area I would be visiting — I really wasn't looking forward to it. Who wants to drive all day, take a ferry, then drive some more to see "McMansions" or rub elbows in an overpriced restaurant with high rollers from New York City? I did make the trip, however, and although it was quite different from Long Island, Maine, it wasn't what I had envisioned.

I had a little time to kill before taking the ferry from New London, Conn., so I took a moment to see the newly completed Athenian garden in a pocket park downtown. With a Greek-inspired mural and sculptures, it was well worth the visit. If you have more time to spend in New London, a half-day visiting the Connecticut College Arboretum also is a must.

The ferry ride across Long Island Sound to Orient Point proved pleasant aboard the 1,000-passenger MV John H. There were many interesting sights, including lighthouses and the Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn., where sub-marines are built and main- tained for the U.S. Navy. One of the subs passed the ferry — something I had never seen in Casco Bay!

Disembarking from the ferry, I was ready for the glitz and glitter of Long Island. The first hour of driving, however, was through rural farming areas in Suffolk County, the leading agricultural county in New York. Tomatoes were ripe on the vine and potatoes were being dug. After another ferry ride from Shelter Island, I pulled into Bridgehampton, where BMWs, Jaguars and Mercedes replaced the John Deere tractors of an hour earlier.

No celebrities were sighted, but I was immediately taken by the miles of privet hedges, Ligustrum spp., most of them sculpted to sharp angles. They delineated property lines and prevented anyone from seeing through them or over them. I became fascinated with the hedges and tried to seek out Vincent Simone, a local woody-plant expert whose books I reviewed this year in PPP's Early Spring issue. Unfortunately, I was unable to contact him until I returned to Maine (see the sidebar at left). On every road I traveled, pruning crews high on ladders used power hedge trimmers to sculpt the naturally gangly privet into something that looked almost perfect. Back in Maine on Long Island, a privet hedge might only get pruned once a year, and sometimes that would be with a chain saw.

I soon arrived at the Madoo Conser-vancy in Sagaponack and the gardens of Robert Dash, who probably is best known as an artist whose medium is canvas. I quickly found that this multi-talented character — I was going to use the term "gentleman," but I knew he would disapprove — had an uncanny eye for develop- ing landscapes.

"I do not paint in the way that I garden

or garden as I would employ the brush, although the process is often the same — both are arts of the wrist, the broadest, largest sort of signature, if you will, highly idiosyncratic, the result of much doing, much stumbling, and highly intuited turns and twists before everything fits and adheres to the scale of one's intention," Dash wrote in Notes from Madoo: Making a Garden in the Hamptons (see Book Reviews on Page 132). I felt there could be no better representation of his art than that of his gardens.

In May of 1965, Dash first saw the land that was to become his passion. He bought the parcel — a raw piece of agricultural land with an 18th-century hay barn — and by 1967 was on his way to creating Madoo, which in an old Scottish dialect means "my dove."

Upon my arrival he quickly took me to his gardens, which were designed as a series of rooms. We strolled past the boxwoods of the knot garden and down the rose walk, which features a brick-lined rill. My eye was drawn through hoops entwined with climbing roses to an exedra, a Grecian brick structure with an oculus and a linear mirror to extend the sightline. This was just the first of many garden designs befitting an artist. I have seen ginkgo groves, for instance, but none that utilize tightly pruned boxwoods, or "box balls," as Dash's does.

"Rather a wild stroke," he said.

We passed four quincunx beds, with a fastigiate yew standing at attention at each corner of each square bed. There was a hermit's hut tucked into another garden, and Dash proudly showed me an oriental bridge surrounded by native plants. As we walked, he explained that the keys to successful growing are lots of manure and proper pruning.

Pruning? I was looking for privet that didn't look perfectly square, and I found what I wanted. Dash has taken mature privet and treated it in a way that will provide an opportunity for all gardeners with overgrown hedges — an opportunity to make a statement with plants that will have visitors saying "wow," as I did. Imagine 20-foot-tall privets — with trunks the size of small trees — pruned up a good 10 feet.

"Now aged and knobby, they still look like the legs of young ballerinas, but young ballerinas wearing old rehearsal stockings, pilled and raddled," Dash wrote in describ-ing the effect.

After walking through his many other garden rooms, it was time to have a glass of wine. The wine led to a discussion of what needs to be changed at Madoo, and the amount of grape juice consumed may have influenced the fate of the knot garden. We agreed that it interfered with the view down the rill to the exedra, and it must go!

Running late, I reluctantly left Madoo and arrived at the LongHouse Reserve just as it was closing for the day. A busload of visitors was being escorted out, which allowed for a look at the gardens without anyone else present, and the setting sun created lighting conditions that couldn't have been better for photography. But being late also meant I didn't get to spend much time with Matko Tomicic, the executive director, or any time with Jack Lenor Larsen, who created this wonderful landscape filled with works by artists ranging from Roy Lichtenstein to Yoko Ono.

Garden enthusiasts come to LongHouse not so much for the plant collections as for ambitious landscaping, and for a variety of spaces sometimes referred to as outdoor rooms. Among them are the Red Garden, the Dune Garden, the Grass Garden and the Lotus Pond, in addition to several allées. LongHouse receives about 6,000 visitors annually.

About 300 daffodil cultivars blossom in April and May, primarily in whites and pinks. The property also features 60 bamboo cultivars, ranging from low pygmies to combs 50 feet high; 100 conifer varieties, and 100 ornamental grasses.

The sculptures at LongHouse provide punctuation — and a destination. While many visitors might not want to walk the equivalent of several blocks to see a new tree, they are often willing to visit the Yoko Ono piece at the west boundary of the reserve, or to experience a new or famous work, including pieces in glass and ceramic by Toshiko Takaezu and Dale Chihuly.

While this garden art may be out of reach financially for many of PPP's readers, the concept can be transposed to most landscapes. LongHouse can inspire gardeners to go beyond the ordinary and take the chances necessary to make a landscape unique.

Another public garden in the area that is well worth mentioning is the Bridge Gardens Trust. The gardens had closed for the season the day before I arrived, but curator Harry Neyens was gracious enough to provide a description.

"Bridge Gardens Trust has 800 antique and new roses, a knot garden, a historical collection of culinary, medicinal, textile and dyeing herbs, a lavender parterre, an assortment of topiaries, a water garden, two shade gardens, a bamboo grove and specimen plantings," he said. "(We receive) 1,500 visitors annually."

The next time I visit Long Island, I'll make certain I get there before the closing date of Oct. 31!

If you enjoy visiting wineries, there are many on Long Island from which to choose. The soil (a rich loam), the climate (like Bordeaux) and the influence of the ocean all make for perfect grape-growing. A stop at the Wölffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack proved how well-suited Long Island is for winemaking. The Wölffer Estate Selection Chardonnay was rated "Best Long Island Chardonnay" by The Wine Enthusiast magazine. Even if you are not a fan of wine, the landscape and vineyard running alongside the winery make a stop here worthwhile.

There are many options for accommodations in the Hamptons, from bed-and- breakfast establishments to motels. I opted to head out to Montauk on the easternmost tip of Long Island. The town has an old summer beach community feel, with many old-style motels and 5,000 acres of public beaches to enjoy. It also has a lot of history: The Montauk Point Lighthouse was opened in 1787, and Montauk Point is where Teddy Roosevelt and his 30,000 Rough Riders landed after the Spanish-American War.

There are a host of excellent places to eat in Montauk, and I asked around about the best place to sample local fare. The locals all steered me to the Shagwong Restaurant, and a meal of freshly caught seafood proved their recommendations correct.

What is my most lasting memory of this Day Trip? The eccentricity of Robert Dash, the privet hedges, the sun setting behind the Chihuly glass wands at the LongHouse Reserve, or sunrise at Montauk Point? None of the above. As memorable as these experiences were, they can't beat my visit to Marders Nursery.

For a tree lover, nothing can compare to sitting on the rootball of a 20-foot ginkgo ready to be installed at the cost of $25,000. Yes, $25,000! This nursery in Bridgehamp-ton is beyond belief. It was started by Kathleen and Charlie Marder about a quarter of a century ago with the purpose of transplanting large trees by mechanical means. That they do, and in addition to the large trees they now have a full-service garden center, a landscaping division and an art collection on the grounds. If you need a large plant to anchor your landscape, visit them and ask to see the 40-foot arborvitae. If you think it will fit in your landscape, get the checkbook ready, because for about $40,000 it can be yours. And, of course, if Marders plants the tree, it comes with a two-year guarantee.

It was time to head back to Maine. Had I changed my mind about which Long Island I like best? Maybe, but I'll have to visit the New York one a couple of more times to fairly judge. Of course, if someone bought me one of those $25,000 ginkgos there would be no contest!

Dating site reviews provide a service for lonely singles everywhere who want to find their way through the thousands of dating sites on the Web.

There are more dating sites popping up every hour, trying to cash in on this new phenomenon. Although there are many specialized, online dating site reviews that target Jewish, Christian or gay singles, here is a list of the top five general sites that are favorably appraised on the most dating site reviews:

1. http://Match.com- This is arguably the largest and most populated dating site online.

With the help of daytime television powerhouse, Dr. Phil, it has also made dating services socially acceptable for young adults who would have never thought of giving one a chance. This site tops the list of many dating site reviews.

2. http://eHarmony.com- eHarmony is rapidly growing thanks to its unique approach to matchmaking and its massive commercial campaign.

Many people have probably seen a television commercial for eHarmony, which boasts a detailed and scientific personality profile that matches likeminded singles. There are hardly any dating site reviews that don't mention eHarmony.

3. http://True.com- True has had great success in targeting a young adult crowd, as its advertisements adorn the most populated online socializing Web sites and the models used for True are often attractive, hip young adults.

True also gets recognition from many dating site reviews for its safe approach to online dating. They extensively screen all users for felonies and current marital status and even attempt to prosecute sex offenders who are trying to use the site.

4. http://PerfectMatch.com- PerfectMatch boasts a resident "relationship expert", Dr. Pepper Schwartz, who analyzes each personality profile and attempts to make the perfect match.

The site has gained massive popularity after being featured in numerous television series and popular films.

5. http://DontDateHimGirl.com- Although this site isn't featured on many dating site reviews, it certainly should be.

It isn't a dating service per se, but it does serve as a public forum for women to warn other women about scoundrels they have dated in the past. It is a clever idea and even gives men a chance at rebuttal.

Not all dating site reviews are created equal, as many of the online critics have yet to use a dating site themselves. However, the most popular dating sites are usually a safe bet.

What many dating site reviews won't tell a person is that its good to join several sites instead of just one. This will broaden a single's playing field and allow him/her to feel out the site on a trial basis.

After all, something as complicated as love shouldn't be too easily conquered by a simple search on a dating site.

Santa Claus

The origin of Santa Claus begins in the 4th century with Saint Nicolas, Bishop of Myra, an area in Turkey. By all accounts St. Nicholas was a generous man, particularly devoted to children.  After his death around 340 AD he was buried in Myra, but in 1087 Italian sailors purportedly stole his remains and removed them to Bari, Italy, greatly increasing St. Nicholas’ popularity throughout Europe. His kindness and reputation for generosity gave rise to claims that he could perform miracles and devotion to him increased. St. Nicholas became the patron saint of Russia, where he was known by his red cape, flowing white beard, and bishop’s mitre.  After the Reformation, European followers of St. Nicholas dwindled, but the legend was kept alive in Holland where the Dutch spelling of his name Sint Nikolaas was eventually transformed to Sinterklaas.  Dutch colonists brought this tradition with them to America in the 17th century and here the Anglican name of Santa Claus emerged.

Other countries feature different gift bearers for the Christmas or Advent season: La Befana in Italy, The Three Kings in Spain, Puerto Rico, and Mexico, Christkind or the Christ Child in Switzerland and Austria; Father Christmas in England; and Pere Noël, Father Christmas, or the Christ Child in France.

In 16th-century Germany fir trees were decorated, both indoors and out, with apples, roses, gilded candies, and colored paper.  In the Middle Ages, a popular religious play depicted the story of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Christmas Trees

It is thought that protestant reformer Martin Luther first adorned trees with light.  While coming home one December evening, the beauty of the stars shining through the branches of a fir inspired him to recreate the effect by placing candles on the branches of a small fir tree inside his home.

The Christmas Tree was brought to England by Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert from his native Germany.  The famous Illustrated News etching in 1848, featuring the Royal Family of Victoria, Albert and their children gathered around a Christmas Tree in Windsor Castle, popularized the tree throughout Victorian England.

Christmas Stockings

According to legend, a kindly nobleman grew despondent over the death of his beloved wife and foolishly squandered his fortune.  This left his three young daughters without dowries and thus facing a life of spinsterhood.

The generous St. Nicholas, hearing of the girls’ plight, set forth to help.  Wishing to remain anonymous, he rode his white horse by the nobleman’s house and threw three small pouches of gold coins down the chimney where they were fortuitously captured by the stockings the young women had hung by the fireplace to dry.

Mistletoe

Mistletoe was used by Druid priests 200 years before the birth of Christ in their winter celebrations.  They revered the plant since it had not roots yet remained green during the cold months of winter.

The ancient Celtics believed mistletoe to have magical healing powers and used it as an antidote for poison, infertility, and to ward off evil spirits.  The plant was also seen as a symbol of peace, and it is said that among Romans, enemies who met under mistletoe would lay down their weapons and embrace, hence the origin of the kiss under the mistletoe.

Holly and Ivy

In Northern Europe Christmas occurred during the middle of harsh winter weather, when it was thought that ghosts and demons could be heard howling in the winter winds.  Boughs of holly, believed to have magical powers since they remained green through the harsh winter, were often placed over the doors of homes to drive evil away. Greenery was also brought indoors to freshen the air and brighten the mood during the long, dreary winter.

Legend also has it that holly sprang from the footsteps of Christ as he walked the earth.  The pointed leaves were said to represent the crown of thorns Christ wore while on the cross and the red berries symbolized the blood he shed.

Poinsettias

A native Mexican plant, poinsettias were named after Joel R. Poinsett, U.S. ambassador to Mexico who brought the plant to America in 1828.  Poinsettias were likely used by Mexican Franciscans in their 17th century Christmas celebrations.  One legend has it that a young Mexican boy, on his way to visit the village Nativity scene, realized he had no gift for the Christ Child.  He gathered pretty green branches from along the road and brought them to the church.  Though the other children mocked him, when the leaves were laid at the manger, a beautiful star-shaped flower appeared on each branch.  The bright red petals, often mistaken for flowers, are actually the upper leaves of the plant.

Christmas Cards

A form of Christmas card began in England first when young boys practiced their writing skills by creating Christmas greetings for their parents, but it is Sir Henry Cole who is credited with creating the first real Christmas card.  The first director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Sir Henry found himself too busy in the Christmas Season of 1843 to compose individual Christmas greetings for his friends.

He commissioned artist John Calcott Horsley for the illustration.  The card featured three panels, with the center panel depicting a family enjoying Christmas festivities and the card was inscribed with the message:  ”A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to You”.

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

The Chicago-based Montgomery Ward department store, had been purchasing and distributing children’s coloring books as Christmas gifts for their customers for several years.  In 1939, the owners asked one of their own employees to create a book for them, thus saving money.  A copywriter, 34-year old Robert L May wrote the story of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and 2.4 million copies were handed out that year.  When May’s brother-in-law, songwriter Johnny Marks, wrote the lyrics and melody for the song “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” in 1947, the Rudolph phenomenon was born.  The song sold two million copies that year, going on to become one of the best selling songs of all time, second only to Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”.

Christmas Carols

Carols were first sung in Europe thousands of years ago, but there were not Christmas carols.  They were pagan songs, sung at the winter solstice celebrations as the people danced round stone circles.  The word carol actually means dance or a song of praise and joy.

Early Christians took over the pagan solstice celebrations for Christmas and gave people Christian songs to sing instead of pagan ones.  Soon after this many composers all over Europe started to write carols.  However, not many people liked them as they were all written and sung in Latin.  This was changed by St. Francis of Assisi when, in 1223, he started his nativity plays in Italy.  the people in the plays sang songs or “canticles” that told the story during the plays.  The new carols spread to France, Spain, Germany and other European countries.  Most of the best known carols such as Once in Royal David’s City and Away in a Manger are relatively recent having been written in America during the 19th century.

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Background of the Study:

Job satisfaction is the result of various attitudes possessed by an employee towards his job. These attitudes may be related to job factors, such as wage, job security job environment, nature of work, opportunities for promotion, prompt removal of grievances, opportunities of participation in decision making and other fringe benefits. Job satisfaction may thus be defined as an attitude which results from a balancing and summation of many specific like and dislikes experienced by an employee in the performance of his job; or an employee’s judgment of how well his job, on the whole, provides opportunities to satisfy his needs. It refers to one’s job, his general adjustment and social relationship in and outside his job. This satisfaction and dissatisfaction with one’s job depends upon the positive or negative evaluation of one’s own success or failure in the realization of personal goals and perceived contribution of the job to it.

Universities are the center for imparting higher Education. Universities in the modern world are expected to seek and cultivate new knowledge ,provide the right kind of leadership in all walks of life and strive to promote equality and social justice. The Universities in India, however ,have to shoulder some additional responsibilities. They have to be conscience to the nation, develop programme for adult education assist in improving schools, and try to bring back the center of gravity of academic life within the country.

The university system  has to lay stress on and pursue four important elements, they are(i)Excellence(ii) Modernization(iii)Interaction, and (iv) Self-reliance. These are all inter-related.  True pursuit of excellence in all spheres of activities of a university will help imbibing and nurturing in the university life. The qualities of humanism, tolerance, reason and adventure of ideas, search of truth and thereby help for leading humanity towards even higher objectives. Modernization in terms of courses, facilities, evaluation methods and faculty up gradation will turn enrich teaching, research, examination system and extension activities. Modernization equips better the university to play its role effectively.  Interaction and inter-dependence are well recognized concepts in the present day global situation. Universities are no exception to this. They should come out of their ivory towers concept and interact with outside world viz .the society , the Government, sister institutions, industrial organization and the world. Through interaction, the university excellence should be shared for national  development.

Autonomy in the true sense should be the privilege of the University system so as to enable it to respond with full vigor for fulfillment of its objectives and goal. Academic autonomy relation to offering courses, evolving evaluation methods, teaching research and extension activities is available. Financial autonomy is vital for continuation of universities as centers for excellence and need of the hour is to initiate steps for fund generation and reduce its dependence on the Government to the extent  possible, thus paving the way towards self-reliance.

Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU),was established in 1989.In its search for imparting quality education through Distance Mode, it  is trying to create a distinct identity in the Indian Open Education System. The YCMOU is the 5th Open University in India, and the fourth one at the state level with its goal of becoming a ‘Mass Varsity’. It emphasizes on vocational, technical, professional as well as general educational programmes and its approach towards fostering a new work culture and developmental linkage. The university has set out to create an identity on the national educational scene. The university is trying to develop such management practices that will help it to become efficient, economical(cost-effective) and accountable at each level.

YCMOU runs more than 177 programmes through Distance mode. It has developed more than 1500 books, more than 342 Adios and more than 350 videos on various subjects. It has achieved Award Of Excellence for Institutional  Achievement. in Distance Learning from the Common Wealth of Learning, Canada(2002). It is listed among the Mega Open Universities in the World (2005). It has many  International Collaborations and some are now in pipeline. They are: Common Wealth of Learning, Canada; Commonwealth Secretarial London, Brock University, Canada, Athabascan University, Canada, Wawasan Open University, Malaysia, the Chartered Management Institute of London, UK and International Food Policy Research Institute for the Global Open Food and Agriculture University, U. S. A. etc.

The researcher is working in YCMOU since February 1992. Holding on many positions , he has witnessed  university activities closely.  The personnel working at YCMOU has carried out many responsibilities. They used to carry on any responsibility they are shouldered upon. There are various types of  activities carried out in a distance education  set up like planning of programmes, development of instructional materials, production of instructional materials, delivery of materials and services like counseling, assessment etc, evaluation of products, processes and services ,maintenance of  revision of instructional programmes and administration type work, etc.

When one considers about the job satisfaction on the grounds like good infrastructures, good garden, good working environment, it also depends upon the  status & recognition, sex, age and experience and the qualifications that  contribute for having the job satisfaction. Ones attitude towards the job and personal involvement in the job also affects the satisfaction in the job. Organizational Climate and personality characteristics also play a major role in influencing the job satisfaction of any employee.

Working condition is the major contributor for job satisfaction. But all types of work condition are neither fully satisfying nor dissatisfying,  Job satisfaction definitely promotes happiness, success and efficiency in one’s professional activity wherein the organizational climate helps in developing a happy and congenial  interactions among the employees & management.

Job satisfaction can be an important indicator of how employees feel about their jobs and a predictor of work behaviors such as organizational citizenship, absenteeism and turnover. Further job satisfaction can partially mediate the relationship of personality variables and deviant work behaviors .It seems  satisfaction and job performance are directly related to one another. There are many researches published on job satisfaction which confirms this statement. Therefore it is necessary to study about the job satisfaction of the employees in YCMOU

Rationale Behind the Study :

Satisfaction pertaining to the job leads the employee to perform well. Employees working in YCMOU  are performing their task  without any hesitation. But whether they are satisfied with their jobs are not be testified with the research. Therefore the research in this regard is proposed to carry on.

Statement of the Research Problem:

A Study of job satisfaction of the Employees in  YCMOU

Objectives of the Research:

1.To study the job satisfaction , of the academic staff of the employees

working in   YCMOU.

2. To study the job satisfaction of the non-academic staff working as

class I   employees in  YCMOU.

3. To study the job satisfaction of the non-academic staff working as

class II    employees in  YCMOU.

4.To study the job satisfaction of the non-academic staff working as

class III     Employees in  YCMOU.

5.To study the job satisfaction of the non-academic staff working as

class  IV     employees in  YCMOU.

6.To study the overall general job satisfaction of the non-academic

employees      working in YCMOU

7.To study the overall general job satisfaction of the employees

working in YCMOU

8.To make general remarks pertaining to job satisfaction of the

employees of   YCMOU  comparing academic staff and each

category level of non-academic staff   of YCMOU

Review of Related Literature and Researches

1         Office Type in Relation to Health,Well-Being, and Job Satisfaction Among Employees. By: Bodin Danielsson, Christina; Bodin, Lennart. Environment & Behavior, Sep2008, Vol. 40 Issue 5, p636-668, 33p,

2.Job satisfaction among a multigenerational nursing workforce. By: WILSON, BARBARA; SQUIRES, MAE; WIDGER, KIMBERLEY; CRANLEY, LISA; TOURANGEAU, ANN. Journal of Nursing Management, Sep2008, Vol. 16 Issue 6, p716-723, 8p,

3.The relationship between nursing leadership and nurses' job satisfaction in Canadian oncology work environments. By: Cummings, Greta G.; Olson, Karin; Hayduk, Leslie; Bakker, Debra; Fitch, Margaret; Green, Esther; Butler, Lorna; Conlon, Michael. Journal of Nursing Management, Jul2008, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p508-518, 11p;

4.Leadership behaviour of nurse managers in relation to job satisfaction and work     climate. By: Sellgren, Stina Fransson; Ekvall, Göran; Tomson, Göran. Journal of Nursing Management, Jul2008, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p578-587, 10p;

5.Measuring community nurses’ job satisfaction: literature review. By: Caers, Ralf; Du Bois, Cindy; Jegers, Marc; De Gieter, Sara; De Cooman, Rein; Pepermans, Roland. Journal of Advanced Nursing, Jun2008, Vol. 62 Issue 5, p521-529, 9p;

6.Job satisfaction among psychiatric registered nurses in new England. By: Sharp, T. P.. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, Jun2008, Vol. 15 Issue 5, p374-378, 5p;

7.The Effects of Faculty Demographic Characteristics and Disciplinary Context on Dimensions of Job Satisfaction. By: Seifert, Tricia; Umbach, Paul. Research in Higher Education, Jun2008, Vol. 49 Issue 4, p357-381, 25p;

8.Job satisfaction among intensive care nurses from the People's Republic of China. By: Li, J.; Lambert, V. A.. International Nursing Review, Mar2008, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p34-39, 6p,

9.Role Overload, Job Satisfaction, Leisure Satisfaction, and Psychological Health Among Employed Women. By: Pearson, Quinn M.. Journal of Counseling & Development, Winter2008, Vol. 86 Issue 1, p57-63, 7p,

10    Types of Workplace Social Support in the Prediction of Job Satisfaction. By: Harris, J. Irene; Winskowski, Ann Marie; Engdahl, Brian E.. Career Development Quarterly, Dec2007, Vol. 56 Issue 2, p150-156, 7p;

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Methodology

The research in hand was related to present situation. Therefore the researcher  had used the  Descriptive Survey Method.

He  had used  Standardized Questionnaire (S.Q.) developed by Cooper ,  for measuring the General Satisfaction of the employees, as a tool for collecting the data.  Though it was a Standardized Questionnaire , the researcher took the expertise opinion  from the Experts pertaining to it and made modification as per their suggestions. In the S.Q. point number 19, words were written  abbreviated as w. r. but the expert suggested it should be written in a full form.

S.Q. was included 22 statements following six circles given between High Satisfaction and Low Satisfaction.  It was as six point questionnaire.  After the  discussion with the  Experts, it was decided that  six point should be defined  six grades as  given below with their value..

GRADE        RANGE           WEIGHT AGE           REMARKS

E                    0-19                           1                     Lowest  Satisfaction

D                   20-39                          2                    Lower  Satisfaction

C                   40-49                          3                    Low  Satisfaction

B                   50-59                         4                    Satisfactory Satisfaction

A                   60-74                          5                    Higher Satisfaction

O                   +75                             6                  Highest Satisfaction

When the responses were gathered,  every responses were weighted

as was scheduled above .

YCMOU had then  36 academics and 275 non-academic  staff and thus 311  employees were working in YCMOU. Out of this target group  near about 25% sampling i.e. 80 only was  taken for the research:

Samples had  been  selected randomly as per the availability of the

employees. Stratified Random Sampling method was used for the research.

Employees were chosen from academic staff and also from non-academic

staff  and from each category as given below.

_                                   Academic                          .               Non-academic

1. Reader    Lecturer    Total .   class I   class II    class III  class IV  Total

Population 8            6              22           36 72         18         155          30         275

Sampling 2             2               6           10 20         5            40            5          70

(Near About   25%)

In all 10+70=80 Sampling size.

CONCLUSION:

Objective No.1:

About the Job Satisfaction  of  the Academic Staff of  YCMOU.

Conclusion :

1. 1. Job satisfaction of the Academic  Staff  was found  ‘A’ Grade    Satisfaction  (62.42%)

2. Factor/variable wise job satisfaction in grades of the  Academic Staff  is given  below.

Circulars & Communication

A

Interactions

B

Importance to our efforts

A

Task

A

Motivation

A

Opportunities

A

Safety of Service

A

University Objectives & Participation

O

Supervision

A

Change and Its Process

B

Working Method

A

Individual Progress

A

Procedure of Redress of Complaints

C

Scope of  work for progress

A

Participation in Decisions

C

Utilization of the Capacity /Ability

B

About Freedom & Elasticity

Freedom & Elasticity

A

Atmosphere

A

Salary

B

University Structure

B

Quality of the work given to the Employee

A

About  the Total Work

A

Objectives No.2:

About  the Job Satisfaction of  the   Class I   Employees  in  YCMOU.

Conclusion :

1. Job satisfaction of the Class I Staff was found ‘A’ Grade  Satisfaction     (68.64%)
2. Factor/variable wise job satisfaction  in grades of the Class I

Employees  is given   below.

Circulars & Communication

A

Interactions

A

Importance to our efforts

A

Task

A

Motivation

A

Opportunities

A

Safety of Service

A

University Objectives & Participation

A

Supervision

A

Change and Its Process

A

Working Method

A

Individual Progress

A

Procedure of Redress of Complaints

A

Scope of  work for progress

A

Participation in Decisions

A

Utilization of the Capacity /Ability

B

About Freedom & Elasticity

Freedom & Elasticity

A

Atmosphere

A

Salary

O

University Structure

A

Quality of the work given to the Employee

A

About  the Total Work

A

Objectives No.3:

About the Job Satisfaction of the  Class II    Employees in  YCMOU.

Conclusion :

1. Job satisfaction of the Class II  Employees was found ‘A’ Grade     Satisfaction  (68.78%)
2. Factor/variable wise job satisfaction in grades of the Class II employees is  given  below.

Circulars & Communication

A

Interactions

A

Importance to our efforts

A

Task

O

Motivation

A

Opportunities

A

Safety of Service

O

University Objectives & Participation

O

Supervision

A

Change and Its Process

A

Working Method

A

Individual Progress

A

Procedure of Redress of Complaints

A

Scope of  work for progress

A

Participation in Decisions

B

Utilization of the Capacity /Ability

B

About Freedom & Elasticity

Freedom & Elasticity

A

Atmosphere

A

Salary

O

University Structure

A

Quality of the work given to the Employee

A

About  the Total Work

O

Objectives No.4:

About the Job Satisfaction of the Class III     Employees in  YCMOU.

Conclusion :

1. Job satisfaction of Class III Staff was found ‘A’ Grade  Satisfaction     (63.98%)

2.Factor/variable wise job satisfaction in grades of the Class III

Employees is  given  below.

Circulars & Communication

B

Interactions

A

Importance to our efforts

B

Task

A

Motivation

A

Opportunities

A

Safety of Service

A

University Objectives & Participation

O

Supervision

A

Change and Its Process

B

Working Method

A

Individual Progress

A

Procedure of Redress of Complaints

B

Scope of  work for progress

A

Participation in Decisions

C

Utilization of the Capacity /Ability

B

About Freedom & Elasticity

Freedom & Elasticity

A

Atmosphere

A

Salary

B

University Structure

A

Quality of the work given to the Employee

A

About  the Total Work

A

Objectives No.5:

About the Job Satisfaction of the Class  IV     Employees in  YCMOU.

Conclusion :

1.Job Satisfaction of the Class IV employees was found ‘A’ Grade  Satisfaction  (67.27%)

1. Factor/variable wise job satisfaction in grades of the Class IV   employees is  given  below.

Circulars & Communication

A

Interactions

A

Importance to our efforts

A

Task

A

Motivation

A

Opportunities

A

Safety of Service

O

University Objectives & Participation

O

Supervision

A

Change and Its Process

A

Working Method

A

Individual Progress

A

Procedure of Redress of Complaints

B

Scope of  work for progress

A

Participation in Decisions

B

Utilization of the Capacity /Ability

B

About Freedom & Elasticity

Freedom & Elasticity

A

Atmosphere

A

Salary

A

University Structure

A

Quality of the work given to the Employee

A

About  the Total Work

O

Objectives No.6:

About  Overall General Job Satisfaction of the Non-academic Staff  in YCMOU.

Conclusion :

1.Job satisfaction of the Non  academic Staff of YCMOU was found ‘A’ Grade  Satisfaction  (65.78%)

2.Factor/variable wise job satisfaction in grades of the Non  academic  Staff of YCMOU is  given  below.

Circulars & Communication

A

Interactions

A

Importance to our efforts

B

Task

A

Motivation

A

Opportunities

A

Safety of Service

A

University Objectives & Participation

O

Supervision

A

Change and Its Process

A

Working Method

A

Individual Progress

A

Procedure of Redress of Complaints

B

Scope of  work for progress

A

Participation in Decisions

C

Utilization of the Capacity /Ability

B

About Freedom & Elasticity

Freedom & Elasticity

A

Atmosphere

A

Salary

A

University Structure

A

Quality of the work given to the Employee

A

About  the Total Work

O

Objectives No.7:

About Overall General Job Satisfaction of all  the employees  working in YCMOU

Conclusion :

1. 1. Overall  General  Job Satisfaction of all sort of employees of YCMOU   was found  ‘A’ Grade  Satisfaction  (64.80%)
   1. 2.Factor/variable wise job satisfaction in grades of all  the employees   working in YCMOU is  given  below.

Circulars & Communication

A

Interactions

A

Importance to our efforts

B

Task

A

Motivation

A

Opportunities

A

Safety of Service

A

University Objectives & Participation

O

Supervision

A

Change and Its Process

B

Working Method

A

Individual Progress

A

Procedure of Redress of Complaints

B

Scope of  work for progress

A

Participation in Decisions

C

Utilization of the Capacity /Ability

B

About Freedom & Elasticity

Freedom & Elasticity

A

Atmosphere

A

Salary

A

University Structure

A

Quality of the work given to the Employee

A

About  the Total Work

A

Objectives No.8:

To make general remarks pertaining to job satisfaction of the  employees of   YCMOU  comparing academic staff and each   category level of non-academic staff   of YCMOU.

Conclusion :

1. Overall  Job Satisfaction of YCMOU , Non academic staff  (65.78%)was more   satisfied than those of  Academic staff(62.42). And in Non academic Staff, Class  II employees  (68.78%) were more satisfied than those of other classes. (Class I   was 68.64%,Class III was 63.98% and Class IV was 67.27%)

St. Elsewhere has been off the air for more than 20 years. In the time since, it has pretty much been off the minds of most people. What is forgotten is that St. Elsewhere, from 1982 until 1988, was the best show on television. Unfortunately, most people new the show existed but did not watch. What was the reason? Too dark? Too edgy? Too much reality? Too clever? Yes, yes, yes and yes. In the 1980's people were craving light entertainment in the yuppie driven, materialistic decade.

Heavy dramas had there place but in moderation. Dramas like Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were deemed too pretentious by audiences. The story lines were drawn out over weeks (sometimes months) and most of the audience did not have the patience nor the attention span to follow the series. Couple this with St. Elsewhere's ever changing time slot, it never had a chance to find a large audience. The 1980's were the era of comedies like Family Ties, Cheers, Newhart, The Cosby Show and...Alf. T.J Hooker became a hit and if you wanted drama there were the prime time soap operas like Dallas, Falcon Crest or Dynasty. If that was not enough entertainment, you could watch The Love Boat or Fantasy Island. WOW. Rarely do people speak of St. Elsewhere when asked about '80's television. Well, I never forgot.

Unfortunately, St. Elsewhere was created in the wrong decade. If this was a series created in the mid '90's when reality and television were melding together, the series would have been remembered differently. Of course, critics loved St.Elsewhere. It won numerous Emmys for acting, writing and directing. Unfortunately, critics could not convince the masses that this was a show worth watching. Those who did follow the show religiously know what the critics new. That we were being exposed to a television classic that ages gracefully and does not seem dated, even today. I never forgot.

I never forgot Dr. Donald Westphall's (Ed Flanders) compassion and care towards patients and staff alike. Even though his personal life was in constant turmoil, Westphall's dedication to his profession and love for St. Eligius gave him strength and hope. When Westphall decides he's had enough of the corporate St. Eligius, he resigns on his own terms with his own personal touch; by mooning Dr. Gideon and telling him to "kiss his ***". Ironically, and sadly, the character that hoped and believed in a better world did not carry over into Flanders' personal life. Flanders would take his own life in 1995 after a battle with depression and personal conflict.

I never forgot Dr. Mark Craig, the brutish hot tempered heart surgeon that put fear in the hearts of interns and nurses at St. Eligius. Underneath the rough exterior of this brilliant surgeon lay an insecure yet caring man who secretly yearned for the ability to show compassion towards his patients. Craig and Westphall were polar opposites. When the two characters interacted, it created television magic.

I never forgot Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley Jr.) and his impulse to blurt out whatever stupidity was on his mind. The "father/son" interactions between him and Dr. Craig was comedic and heartwarming all at once. Dr. Craig bellowing "EHRLICH! For the love of Mike!" became a regular feature of the show. What the characters represent is a role reversal for Craig; him becoming his own father, with all his perfectionism and sarcasm directed at his son and Ehrlich becoming the young Dr. Craig with all his perceived deficiencies and never living up to his fathers high expectations.

I never forgot when Doctors Westphall, Craig and Auschlander (Norman Lloyd) walked into Cheers (yes, the television Cheers) for a beer and were served by the abrasive Carla. This was one of the first times two television shows crossed over into one show.

I never forgot the "Time Heals" episodes where the story of St. Eligius and its main characters go back in time to the humble beginnings of the hospital. The story centers around Father Joseph McCabe and his dream of opening a hospital for the less privileged. We see a young rebellious Donald Westphall being disciplined and mentored by McCabe, who ultimately paves the way for Westphall's passion to help others. The use of black and white in these flashback episodes adds authenticity to the period (1930's) and genuine feel that the viewer is part of the memory.

I never forgot the controversial subject matter the producers dealt with. St. Elsewhere was the first series to have a character acquire AIDS ( Dr. Caldwell) and to expose the disease as not just homosexual related. Rape, drug addiction and prejudice were all subjects written in the story lines at a time when such topics were not commonly written into scripts.

Finally, I never forgot the final episode of St. Elsewhere. In the final surreal scene of the series, we see Donald Westphall arriving home from a long day work (on the construction site!?). Westphall asks "dad", Daniel Auschlander how his autistic son Tommy has been. Auschlander explains that the boy occupies all his time by staring into a snow globe of St. Eligius. "What does he think about?", asks Westphall, thinking out loud. The viewer is then shown a close up of the snow globe, symbolizing that the events of St. Eligius were all deep in Tommies imagination. Many fans were disappointed by this ending. Many felt that there was no closure to it. Whatever the fans main criticism was, give credit to the producers for ending the series the way every episode was conceived: To keep us wondering what will happen next...and wanting more! St. Elsewhere is more than deserving of the number three spot on my all time best television show list. The fact that the show ended its run as strong as its first episode is a testament to the skilled writers and actors who made this series a classic.

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Visions of calico dresses and poke bonnets, wagon trains, prairies and the wild, wild west? Me too. Pioneer brings that up. Bizarrely or not, the word comes from Old French and means a foot-soldier. I’m not too enchanted to link the idea of soldiers with peace, but consider this news from The Student Peace Alliance on the Web.

“We are so proud and excited to share this news! Ben & Jerry's, the Vermont-based socially conscious ice-cream maker, announced today at its New York City Times Square Scoop Shop that Aaron Voldman, Executive Director of the Student Peace Alliance (SPA) and Board Member of The Peace Alliance, is one of two nationwide winners of its "Peace Pioneer" contest.

“The ceremony was part of Ben & Jerry's joint effort with The Lennon Estate and Peace One Day, a nonprofit global peace organization, to encourage people to work for peace every day.

“Award-winning actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, presented Aaron and fellow Peace Pioneer, Robert Kent of the Peace Camp Initiative with donations of $10,000 each for their respective organizations.

“The $10,000 contribution in support of Student Peace Alliance will be donated on a tax-deductible basis to Peace Partnership International and restricted for use by Student Peace Alliance in building youth leadership for peace.

“This recognition of the significance of our work is one of the most public and mainstream acknowledgments we've received to date. Congratulations to you and everyone in the campaign for, as Aaron put it in his acceptance remarks, helping "… build this movement to make peace as American as ice cream and apple pie."

“More information about the award and the events in New York City is available on the SPA website. Check back frequently as we'll add links to press coverage and video of the event as we receive it.

“100-Chapter Mark Reached
And the good news just keeps coming! We're also pleased to announce that SPA has grown to include 100 high school and college chapters in over 30 states. All this just since its founding in March 2006! An updated list of active chapters can be downloaded on the SPA website.

“Help Celebrate and Keep SPA Growing
In celebration of Aaron's recognition and SPA reaching 100 chapters, we invite you to donate to Student Peace Alliance and invest in the future of peace that Aaron and all of us are working to create. If just 100 people give $100 each we can match the donation made by Ben & Jerry's! Donations of $100, $50, $25 or $10 a month will go a long way in helping us support and expand the work being done by SPA all across the nation.

“Please take a moment and donate to SPA today! “

In days of yore, pioneers—foot-soldiers—were often the youngest enlistees in the military. Pioneers, especially amongst young people, are exactly what is needed to create an organic peace on earth. Sign ?em up!

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And your dad shared something with me. He said,'Terry, the Bible teaches about the gifts of healings. Gifts is plural and healings is plural.' ( Yes, it is ) And he announced,'There are a lot of different delivery systems that God brings healing,' and that's the reason why we've got this pretty city of faith here. This is bringing healing to the sick. Your ministry is bringing healing to the sick. I'm so happy about the university and what God's doing in the hospice.
we are saying something to the nation. We are letting the state know that God is a healing God. He's's reaching out. He is's touching you. He's's ministering to you now where you are. And there's a healing power. Right now this program is dedicated to healing. This young man, the anointing and ministry of God, the touch of Our Lord God on his life, is dedicated to reach out and touch you. And God's doing it today.
You know, Terry, I am reminded. I revealed it is not in the Bible, but as you talk I'm reminded of the Scripture where it asserts,'He sent his word and healed them.' ( Amen ) Now that's what we're doing today on this program. We're sending forth God's Word. We are not bringing you our words. We're bringing you the word of god. God watches over His Word to perform it. It's active. It's active in your life. Well, pal, just stay tuned. And when we pray, I'm expecting something to begin in your life. I really am. ( Amen ) Terry, you revealed that you are tied into this ministry, and I think you are. You have been around the planet many times evangelizing the gospel.
And I just wish you'd share an experience that has just occurred. You probably have had more success for Jesus behind the Iron Curtain than anybody I know. One of your team members, a Soviet citizen, was finished in a plane crash in Russia.
There's been very tiny, virtually nothing asserted about it in the news. But you received word, some special word, and I just wish you'd share about that and let the people know and call us to hope for it.

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Lindsay Roberts and the Revival Ministries international is a ministry that crosses denominational limits and geographical borders to meet what the Lord has called it to do, to stir up the Church, enlightening her to prepare for the coming revival.
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