Innovate to Leapfrog

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

The Holy Spirit gives the ability to be creative, innovative and enterprising. Believers have more potential to make more money if only they will ask from God. This is because the Holy Spirit who resides in every God fearing and obeying believer is the One Who gives illumination for innovation. He gave Joseph the fourteen year plan for ensuring food security in Egypt.

There had been surplus harvests in the past just as there had been famines in the past. In the days of Abraham, there was a famine. In point of fact, it was famine that made Abraham move from Bethel to Egypt. But for the intervention of God, Abraham would have lost his beautiful wife, Sarah to Pharaoh. Fortunately, Abraham was enriched and left Egypt. Please read Genesis Chapter 12 verses 8 to 20. Yet another famine made Isaac, the son of Abraham want to move from Gerar. But God instructed Isaac to stay on in Gerar despite the famine. Isaac stayed on and God gave him the requisite wisdom to innovate on existing best practices that leapfrogged the famine in the land.

Isaac was subsequently enriched, in point of fact, so rich that the Philistines envied him. Isaac did not run away from the challenges in the land. Rather, he innovated on existing best practices to circumnavigate the challenges in the land. He was successful. This implies that challenges are sometimes stepping stones. Please read Genesis Chapter 26.

Birth the Divine Ideas

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Divine ideas are ideas given to you by God to bless humanity with; either as products or services which add value to the lives of people in order to enhance the quality of lives that they lead and live. Additionally divine ideas help you to excel above your peers, propel you into relevance, wealth and honor but that really is not the primary objective of divine ideas. The primary objective of divine ideas is to enhance the quality of lives of peoples and the nations; to bring about positive transformation. Joseph for instance was blessed with the divine of providing the solution to mitigating the impending famine which threatened not only Egypt but the nations around Egypt. Joseph’s divine idea staved off the famine and many lives were saved. That same idea birthed the culture of saving from surplus harvests, building up storage facilities to house the surplus harvest as well as developing techniques to preserve the surplus produce from rot. Additionally, the divine idea of Joseph also created employment opportunities for many people such as the people who built and maintained the storage facilities; people who transported the harvested produce from the farms to the storage facilities, people who treated the harvested produce for preservation, people who sold and managed the books as well as other jobs that were created.

A single divine idea from Joseph, a former slave and prisoner transformed the economy of Egypt; ensured food security globally so to speak and gave Joseph honor, power and affluence. A single divine idea gave rise to economic boom in Egypt and Egypt became the food basket of the world, earning income from several nations who bought food from Egypt. This means that an idea can be turned into a big business, a business that transcends you to create jobs and wealth for many people. Beloved, what is or are your divine ideas? What has been deposited in your heart to transform the peoples and nations of the world that you are unable to unearth; or possibly cannot unearth because your mental processes are cluttered with what should not be there. All that clutter is crowding out, obscuring real wealth and blessings to humanity. Have you ever taken off time to identify them and process them so that you can be a blessing to humanity and in the process attract wealth, fame and honor to yourself?

You are endowed and blessed with great ideas that will richly bless and transform humanity. In addition the ideas are divinely designed to propel you to the realm of limitless overflowing abundance. However, you need the Holy Spirit to help you unlock and implement the ideas. How willing are you o spend quality time with the Holy Spirit so you can hear Him clearly, ask the pertinent questions like Mary the mother of Jesus Christ did, get the  right understanding and divine partners to work with so that you can hit the ground running? Is the Holy Spirit dear to you and is His presence more important to you than all the voices and seeming attractions beckoning to you? Is the Holy Spirit your final authority? Then create room and time for the Holy Spirit. Do not crowd Him out of your thoughts, emotions, time, relationships and activities.