The Essence and Focus of Work

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

At creation, God gave man work to do (Genesis Chapter 2 verse 15). In Genesis Chapter 2 verses 5 to 15, the Bible describes how the Garden of Eden was created - again without the effort of man. The trees that bore fruit for food grew out of the ground and a river watered the garden. Man did not even have to do the watering – God prepared the river to do it. Man’s assignment was to tend and keep the garden as well as feed from it. What bliss!

The essence and focus of work is on being productive to be financially rewarding and not on being busy. Therefore, be purposeful, productive and profitable in your work by investing time to engage in in spiritually, physically, mentally and financially productive and rewarding processes as well as relationships in your work. As much as possible, avoid time wasting relationships, activities and utterances. People without clear  cut visions and even when they have visions but do not have clearly identified goals, SMART objectives. Therefore they do  not have clear road maps of where they are headed in life because they have no idea where they are going. If you must spend time with such people, make it really minimal otherwise you will be caught in their maze of a circular dance that does not take or move anyone forward in life. Spending quality time with such people is akin to hanging around a dried up brook in a long period of drought hoping against hope that water will suddenly come from nowhere.

Beloved, the sensible thing to do is to move away as fast as your legs or any means of transport at your disposal can carry you out of a dried up brook. Dried up brooks have nothing to offer. God instructed the prophet Elijah to move out of a dried up brook. Please see 1^st Kings Chapter 17 verses 3 to 10.

Birth and Live the Wealth

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

For years, I worked hard at engendering   pro-poor policies instead of learning to create and make wealth which is the Biblical standard and God’s will for me and every child of God who agrees with God on this and chooses to make wealth. Now I know better and really want to make wealth. I can also understand why God wants me o teach His people wealth creation and free them from the lies and deceit of the enemy that God wants them poor, in a state of constant lack, in debt and constant begging and humiliation. That is not the will of God for anyone.

The blog Olives International is an empowering platform designed to raise the consciousness of people to prosper through teaching them to discover themselves, that is the innate potentials of Christ in them, develop and activate these potentials to soar, create wealth to benefit themselves, families and society, manage the relationships in their lives profitably, groom like royalty, have ethics and values and live successful Christian lives.

People choose to be wealthy and have a choice to be wealthy when they discard the poverty mentality and consciousness for the wealthy mentality and consciousness. God is your father and He owns every wealth that is named anywhere. Therefore, as His heir and covenant child, you also own that wealth and can always access that wealth through Him. This mental paradigm shift also includes the choice of relationships and environments you maintain.  A wealth conscious mentality will ensure that the relationships in your life are relationships that move you up the wealth ladder albeit in a godly manner. Such relationships will include godly relationships, proactive people who are motivated and driven by excellence, as well as innovative people who are pro change. Such a mentality will deliberately and wisely avoid relationships with people who celebrate mediocrity, people who are opposed to change, complacent and are satisfied with mediocrity, incompetence and obscurity.