Meditate Your Way to Wealth

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Sound minds create wealth and God has richly blessed you with a sound mind. God gave you the power to create wealth by blessing you with the spiritual; physical and mental capacities that are required to create wealth. The spiritual capacity is your loving relationship with God which grants you access into the myriad blessings of God for you specially designed for you from the foundation of the world. Your physical capacity is reflected in your physical strength to move your body in relation to the tasks you have to carry out in order to create wealth while your mental capacities start with a sound mind. A sound mind is the precursor to intellectual prowess as well as positive mental processes.

One of the ways you can create wealth is through meditation on the word of God. Please see Psalms 119 verses 15, 23, 48, 78, 97 to 99, Joshua Chapter 1 verse 8.

Why Meditate on the Word of God

There is power in the Word of God. This is because before anything existed the word of God had already existed alongside God because the Word is God; the Creator of everything that exists.  The word of God is God manifested in human flesh as Jesus Christ. Please see John Chapter 1 verses 1 to 14, Revelation Chapter 19 verses 11 to 13.

Additionally, the word of God is forever settled in heaven. No one can make any changes whatsoever to the word of God. Please see Psalm 119 verse 89, Revelation Chapter 22 verses 18 to 19.

The word of God is truth. Please see Psalm 119 verse 60, 151, John Chapter 17 verse 17, 14 verse 6, Romans Chapter 3 verse 4, Numbers Chapter 23 verse 19, 1^st Samuel Chapter 15 verse 29.

The word of God cleanses. Please see Psalm 119 verse 9, Ephesians Chapter 5 verse 26, John Chapter 15 verse 3.

The word of God guides. Please see Psalm 119 verses 105, 123, 11, 130 and also gives understanding to the simple. Please see John Chapter 8 verse 12, 1 verses 1 to 14, Matthew Chapter 4 verse 12 to 16, Luke Chapter 1 verse 79, 2 verses 21 to 32, and Isaiah Chapter 9 verse 2.

The Consequences of Idleness

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Wandering – In 1^st Timothy Chapter 5 verses 1 to 15, the widows are described as gossips and busybodies, tell tales interfering in people’s lives, sowing discord among brethren, creating problems among people, constituting themselves into authors of strife and contention, accusing people. Please read 1^st Thessalonians Chapter 4 verses 11 to 12 and 2^nd Thessalonians Chapter 3 verses 6 to 12. Though the devil and his cohorts accuse the children of God daily, there are ways to overcome them daily – the blood of Jesus Christ, the word of God and your testimony of victory in Christ Who gives you the victory at all times as well as putting God first. Please read Revelation Chapter 12 verses 9 to 11 and Job Chapter 1 verses 6 to 7.

Covetousness – in the book of 1^st Kings Chapter 21, the Bible records that King Ahab for want of nothing to do coveted the property of one of his subjects, Naboth. Additionally, Ahab took a step further to acquire the property by approaching the subject to sell the property to him. When the subject refused to sell, he was upset and sulked all day. How idle can a person be! A King did not think of improving the quality of lives of the people he ruled over; he did not care about development projects that would benefit the people; he did not reflect on issues of equity and justice in the land and did not bother to learn from the successes of Kings like David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat and Hezekiah as well as others who impacted the lives of the people positively. Rather, King Ahab immersed himself in coveting after other people’s properties; and pathetically, the property of his subject.

Idleness was also the reason King David saw Bathsheba. While other kings and warriors were busy at the battle lines, David idled time away on the roof top not thinking about the weightier issues of state but focused his attention and desires on a naked woman bathing. Rather than tame whatever desires were stirred in him particularly so when he discovered that the beautiful woman he could not wait to devour was the wife of one of his subjects who was busy at the battle lines; he proceeded to the sin of adultery and as if that was not bad enough, he attempted to cover his sin the moment he discovered that the woman was pregnant. But when his attempts at cover up failed, David, the man greatly beloved by God and many people resorted to murder. How unfortunate that a person like David who always invested time fell into the trap of the enemy simply because he chose a moment of idleness. Unfortunately, the consequences of David’s action were dire – he lost the child from the sinful liaison and but for the mercy of God, he would have lost the throne. Please read 1^st Samuel Chapters 11 to 19.

God Hates Idleness

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To be idle is not to be engaged in any productive process. Please see Proverbs Chapter 19 verse 15. God hates idleness because idleness is destructive (Ecclesiastes Chapter 10 verse 18); idleness is equivalent to slothfulness and laziness which always bring about destruction, in point of fact, is great destruction. Please see also Proverbs Chapter 18 verse 9 and 1^st Thessalonians Chapter 3 verses 10 to 13 where the Apostle Paul cautioned against idleness.

Furthermore, the book of Proverbs Chapter 14 verse 23 throws ample light on forms of idleness such as idle chatter, the kind of chatter that does not lead to spiritual, physical and mental benefits; does not add to knowledge, does not bring in income, does not add to spiritual and physical and even emotional well being. Additionally, wandering from house in aimless visits with no productive purpose behind the visits is wandering as the outcome of such visits is usually idle chatter. Also, practitioners of such idleness end up as busy bodies rather than productive fruitful people.

God hates idleness. He engaged the idle laborers in productive processes by providing employment opportunities to keep the idle people busy in productive processes. These ones were idle because they were not hired to engage in productive processes which explains why Jesus hired each one of them that were at the market place; those in search of jobs. It is instructive to note that these people were not idle people because if they were idle people who enjoyed being idle, they would not have been at the market place, a place where people in search of employment opportunities went to be hired. They were not deliberately idle like the widows described in 1^st Timothy Chapter 5 verse 16; nor those who chose idleness and idle chatter as a way of life. Please read Matthew Chapter 20 verses 1 to 7.

Raising Governors of Wealth

 Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

To raise governors of wealth in the nations is to raise men and women who fear God and will deploy their God given wealth for the healing of the nations by redistributing whatever abundance God blesses them with because abundance should always be redistributed. The case of the four lepers who suddenly realized that what they were doing by feeding fat alone on the loot from the Syrian army was not right is a good example of redistributing abundance. Please read 2^nd Kings Chapter 7, note verses 8 to 10. The four lepers had eaten to their full, had taken enough silver and gold as well as clothing for themselves and then it occurred to them that several people were hungry and had no food to eat. Quickly, they ran back to Samaria to proclaim the good news of abundance so that everyone could partake in the abundance.

For years, Bishop David Oyedepo taught on abundance and prosperity, reaching out to millions of people on the power of God to make people; irrespective of their backgrounds, academic, economic, social; to prosper. It is also significant to note that at the time God blessed and empowered him with this great revelation with which millions of people were transformed from dirt poor poverty to abounding wealth, Bishop Oyedepo himself was not financially wealthy. But he was already spiritually, mentally and physically wealthy; and was only patiently awaiting the physical manifestation of his divinely given stupendous wealth. Beloved, great wealth resides in you. Ask God for the wisdom to unlock the wealth. It’s in there, in you, latent but impatiently or patiently waiting for activation, significantly by you.

The four lepers unlocked the latent wealth in them by taking a quality decision to walk away from famine, hunger, lack and imminent death from hunger. The moment they took the decision, heaven backed them first in response to the prophetic  word of prophet Elisha that there would be abundance of economic, food and material resources in Samaria and their own decision to walk away from lack, to say an eternal goodbye to lack and hunger. It is not a surprise that they became the first partakers of the abundance. They were the first to see the abundance because they were the first set of people who took a decision to walk away from the famine and lack ravaging the city of Samaria. Their decision alongside its implementation took them to overflowing abundance. They ate to their fill, collected enough silver and gold as well as clothing to their fill before announcing the abundance to other people who also came to partake of the abundance.