Steps to Wealth

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

It is the blessing of God that can make you rich, a lender to nations and not a borrower. Please see Deuteronomy Chapters 28 verses 12 and 13, 8 verse 18, 10 verse 29, 15 verses 1 to 18, 16 verses 15 to 17, 24 verse 19, 30 verses 5 and 9; 2^nd Samuel Chapter 6 verses 10 to 12, 1^st Chronicles Chapter 26 verses 4 to 8, 15, 1^st Chronicles Chapter 4 verses 9 and 10, 1^st Samuel Chapter 2 verses 8 and 9. Ask God to bless you.

Do not depend on a single source of income. Always expand your sources of income – multiple income streams. Oceans never dry up because they have multiple water bodies – seas, rivers, lakes, streams flowing into them.

Always invest and re-invest your income in high yield businesses. Expand your selling points – identify other sales outlets.

Deep calls unto deep. What you seek is in the depths of God’s word. Dig deep and you will find what you seek. Seek and you will find. Oceans run deep, have multiple inflow channels and therefore do not dry up.

Move Forward (Deuteronomy Chapter 1 verses 1 to 8). The only propeller for moving forward in life is the word of God. Please, see. Therefore, move forward and take over the entire land, the mountains, the hills, the plains, the lowlands, the seacoast, the great river, the North, the South, the East and the West. The land is before you. Move in and occupy. It is your land given to you by God for a possession. Move in and occupy.

Discard every Lot. Your Lot may not necessarily be your nephew, niece, brother, sister or cousin or friends that you invited into the business. It could be mediocrity, tunnel vision, or what have you. Whatever it is, ask God to help you get rid of it so you can internalize excellence and move on to global visibility, recognition and number 1 positioning.

Assess your intangible assets and what tangible assets they should generate. Any one, any activity that does not generate this or does not lead to the generation of this is not worth spending five minutes on. Give them fleeting seconds and move on to more fruitful activities. The determinant of activities and relationships should be how much they can generate in the long run.

Engage in Wealth Creating Activities

 Written by Uyoyou Charles-Iyoha

To make money and create wealth, you have to engage in an income generating activity.  Lydia was a business woman who sold purple – Acts Chapter 16 verse 14. The virtuous woman of Proverbs Chapter 31 verses 10 to 31 was a business woman – knitting and sewing, designing gowns and sweaters for sale. She also invested in agriculture. The widow of the indebted prophet was a business woman – she sold oil and became debt free, 2^nd Kings Chapter 4 verses 1 to 7. Aquila was a tentmaker and worked with her husband. At some point, the Apostle Paul joined them – Acts Chapter 18 verses 1 to 3.

Preachers and teachers are also engaged in the tasks of money making through the knowledge they share. That is why the Bible says that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel. Acts Chapter 9 verses 1 to 14.

In every instance of financial lack, insufficiency, and indebtedness in the Bible, the recourse was always on how to access financial resources either through paid employment (hiring your time, skills and expertise out for money as in the case of the prodigal son (Luke Chapter 15 verses 11 to 19); production and sales of products as in the case of the indebted prophet’s widow (2^nd Kings Chapter 4 verses 1 to 7); and engagement in  a trade as in the case of Peter who went fishing to get the required tax money.

In all of these instances, we find people engaging in income generating activities to raise the required financial resources. None went begging or borrowing or stealing. They engaged in economic activities. They also were not instructed to give away their financial lack, insufficiency or indebtedness by either begging or borrowing to give in order to receive a hundred fold return. They also did not mope around to say they were trusting God, pray against the enemies of their financial resources, divine as to who or what was responsible for their financial lack, insufficiency and indebtedness. They simply went in search of the money by engaging in income generating activities.