Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
What do you do with pearls? You showcase them. You do not
hide them under your pillow, bed or a hidden case as a good luck charm. It is
when you showcase the pearl or pearls to the world that you get the true value
for the pearl or pearls and enjoy the divine blessing.
Please, do not be like the man in the Philippines who found the
current most expensive pearl in the world. It was only after his tiny home got
burnt down and the pearl was found that the actual value of what he found and
owned; a divine gift from God dawned on him. The man lived in penury for ten
years while he had great wealth on him or with him. Significantly, he did not even
labor for the wealth he was not aware of and which belonged to him. He found
the pearl in a large clam as he went fishing. But unfortunately had no inkling
of the value of the pearl of great worth except that it would make a great good
luck charm which explains why he kept it under his pillow as a good luck charm.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertanaas/2016/08/23/100-million-pearl-hidden-
Beloved, pearls are divine gifts from God to you to uplift
you in life. If the man who found that great pearl knew the worth of the pearl,
he would have traded it in for the money he had been working for all his life
as a fisherman. But he was unaware which unfortunately is the case with a large
number of people blessed with great divine gifts for actualizing purpose and
making money. While the divine gifts may be latent or active, the agonizing
truth is that a great number of people never actually get to know the value of
the gifts and so they spend their lives in penury lamenting their poverty when actually
great wealth resides in them. All they need is to come to an awareness of the
value of the great deposit of God in their lives so that they can be prosperous
and be forever free of poverty.
But awareness is not enough as a person laden with divine
gifts also has to showcase the gifts as the Biblical Joseph did. If Joseph had
not offered to interpret the dreams of the butler and the baker, he would not
have had the opportunity of standing before Pharaoh. This is because the butler
would not have known that Joseph could interpret dreams and therefore recommend
him to Pharaoh. The Biblical Daniel also went to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
to offer his services – he would tell the King his dream alongside the interpretation.
After successfully interpreting the dream and of course getting handsome
remuneration, Daniel became the official dream interpreter of not only the Babylonian
court but also that of the Persians and Medes when they dethroned the
Babylonians and took over the ruler ship of the empire.
Herein is the crux of the matter. You may be aware of your
divine gifts and have successfully packaged them as services and products yet
you are not making money. I dare to say that the missing link is that you are
not selling. You should sell your products and services to earn and make money.
Do not be ashamed to sell your products and services. They are your
intellectual property, gifts bestowed on you by God to earn and make money. Earn
money by selling. The widow of the indebted Prophet sold the oil she packaged
at home to the general public. She did not hide it in her home or mentioned it
to a few people. In point of fact, she marketed it publicly and sold many
vessels to earn the money that the family urgently required.
Beloved, you can and should market your products and
services to sell them. You may ask who to market to, where to market, when to
market and how to market. You can start online by informing your followers and
friends about what services and products you have to sell. Thereafter, you can
daily project them on social media by sharing their benefits to people.
You can increase your following on social media so that you
have a larger audience to market to and who knows they also help you market as
they share your posts and retweet your tweets. Increasing your following on
social media calls for inclusion. This is because inclusion fosters increase
while exclusion leads to reduction. Expand your following online by connecting
with people and following people. When you connect with people, you are
inclusive.
Finally, I suggest you pray this prayer and God will open
great doors of opportunity for you in the mighty name of Jesus Christy. Father,
please open my eyes of understanding to Your huge deposits of divine pearls in
me so that I can access what You want me to access to bless humanity in the
mighty name of Jesus Christ. Thank You, Lord for answered prayers, Lord in the
mighty name of Jesus Christ. Shalom.
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