The Dynamics of Divine Wealth Transfer

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

One of the dynamics of divine wealth transfer is wisdom as in the case of King Solomon whose wisdom was a source of wealth. Kings, queens, and a number of people from diverse backgrounds brought treasures of gold, silver, and other resources to King Solomon as gifts as they came from far and wide to hear his God given wisdom.

Yet another dynamic is divine favor as in the case of the Israelites in Egypt. They requested gold and silver items as well as clothing from the Egyptians and received. Please read Exodus Chapters 3 verses 21 to 22, 11 verses 2 to 3, 12 verses 35 to 36, and Psalm 105 verses 43 to 45. God made the Israelites inherit the land and labor of the nations, the original inhabitants of Canaan. Please read Genesis Chapter 15 verses 13 to 14.

Divine intervention, for instance when Jehovah the Man of war, the Lord Who is strong and mighty in battle, Who does not lose any battle intervenes in battles and defeats and destroys the enemy so that the wealth of the enemy is transferred to the people of God whom the enemy rose against. The Syrian army besieged Samaria to the point that the Bible records that there was a great famine in Samaria. As a result, cannibalism became the order of the day as some foolish women resorted to trading in their children for food at the advice of other wicked and ungodly women. When the king heard about this from the victim, a mother whose son had been boiled and eaten, the king tore his robes and threatened to kill the prophet Elisha.

Rather than react to the death threat, Elisha prophesied abundant supply of food that would put an end to the famine. Though a high ranking official of the king attempted to create doubt, wondering how on earth the prevailing famine would come to an abrupt end the following day, Elisha prophesied doom against the official. Significantly, the doubts expressed by the official did not stop God’s intervention because God works in mysterious ways. He did not rain food supplies from heaven. Rather, He used the same people who caused the famine to bring the famine to an end. How?

DARE TO MAKE WEALTH

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Stop managing poverty, begging for bread and living off handouts and the sometimes reluctant generosity of other people ; most of who do not really care about you but use you as a platform for dumping off what they do not need; justifying their overconsumption in the handouts they give to you.

Beloved, for too long, you have lived in the consciousness of living off crumbs and that consciousness has limited you from making and enjoying the great wealth God blessed you with from the foundation of the world (Deuteronomy Chapter 8 verse 18, also 11 to 17). Stop loving and managing poverty. Dare to give wealth creation a shot; by taking the first step towards wealth creation. Honestly, you will be amazed at the latent capacity to create wealth which unfortunately you have allowed to lie fallow for too long. It is time to break up your fallow ground because you are created to make and enjoy wealth.

In everyone lies untapped wealth, in point of fact, huge deposits of wealth. Unfortunately and quite sadly, not everyone knows this universal truth which explains why billions of people are content to remain poor believing that poverty is their lot in life. Perhaps this explains why Jesus talks about always having the poor (John Chapter 12 verse 8, Deuteronomy Chapter 15 verses 1 to 11) and instructs about reaching out to the poor. But the truth is that your name is not listed among the poor except you choose to engrave it in the list. In that case, God is not to be blamed for the list you choose to be in. Neither are your parents or any other relations you may have. You alone have the power to decide and determine to create and enjoy great wealth.

The Truth about Money

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

One of the truths about money is that money always has to be earned. The widow of the indebted prophet trading oil in packed vessels to earn the money which was required to pay off the family debt as well as earn additional money to live on for the rest of their lives. Please read 2^nd Kings Chapter 4 verses 1 to 7. Also, please take note of the command from Elisha to the widow in verse 7 “Go and sell the oil and pay off your debts; you and your sons live on the rest”. Selling the oil implies trading a much required resource useful in majority of homes for the urgently required money to free her sons from debt bondage. It is also instructive to note that the prophet commanded her to sell and not to do free distribution – SELL and make the money urgently required to pay off the debts and have money to live on. This is very very instructive and significant. SELL! SEEL!! SELL!!!

The virtuous woman of Proverbs Chapter 31 verses 10 to 31 made linen garments which she sold. She also supplied sashes to the merchants. Please read verse 24. The Bible also records that she bought a field and planted a vineyard from the profits she made. The vineyard was planted to earn and make additional money. This implies that a virtuous woman earns and makes money to augment the payment of the family bills.

Lydia in the Bible is described as a seller of purple – the expensive clothes of her day. The Bible also records that she sold them. She did not give them away for free. Rather, she accommodated and hosted the ministers of God with money earned from her trade that gave her a decent accommodation and good feeding money. Please read Acts Chapter 16 verses 14 to 14.

Aquila and Priscilla made tents and sold them to earn and make money for their upkeep. The Apostle Paul who was also skilled at tent making joined them or became their partner and also earned his upkeep from tent making. Please read Acts Chapter 18 verses 1 to 3. It is therefore not surprising that the Apostle Paul did not permit idleness in the Church. He instructed everyone to work and earn money for their upkeep. Please read 1^st Thessalonians Chapter 2 verses 11 to 12.

Something of value always has to be traded for money. It could be physical such as brute physical strength in working the land, lifting weights, participating in sporting activities and anything that requires physical strength. It could also be intellectual prowess where a person’s intellectual prowess is traded for money. It could be military prowess or expertise, or any great talent such as acting, singing, drawing, sculpting, painting, drawing, dancing, sewing, designing, etc.

Focus on Solutions 2

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Beloved, you can request help of God to overcome whatever challenges you if only you will focus on solutions rather than on stewing over whatever assails you. Are you sick and in need of healing? God still heals and will gladly heal you if you ask Him to do so. King Hezekiah of Judah cried to God for help when he was sick unto death. God not only healed him; He also gave him additional years to live on planet earth. It is also quite instructive that King Hezekiah was advised on what medications to use and he used them. This implies that God’s healing come in diverse ways; sometimes with His word and the ailment disappears as in a number of cases in the Bible, sometimes with medications as in the case of Hezekiah, the blind man Jesus ministered to with sand and other materials; sometimes by anointing with oil after prayers by the elders of the Church as instructed in the Bible in the book of James. Beloved, God is new every day and will direct you on how to get healed if you focus on receiving healing from Him rather than on the ailment and its pain.

Are you in debt? Take your focus away from the huge amount of debt and ask God to show you how to earn great income with which you can pay off the debts. Worrying about the debts and the consequent actions of servitude that will be taken by your creditor will not solve the problem. What will solve the problem is, you turning to God for solutions. Please quickly do so now if this is the challenge you are experiencing. You will be pleasantly surprised to discover that God will not only help you pay off the debts, He will also empower you to become a lender to nations. The case of the indebted widow of the prophet in 2^nd Kings Chapter 4 verses 1 to 7 is instructive and faith inspiring.

Focus on Solutions

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Every problem has a solution. That is why it is said that problems or challenges are stepping stones to greatness. Therefore, it always best to focus on solutions and not problems. Besides, when you focus on finding solutions to a problem, you are actually taking sides with God to deal the enemy a blow. This is because God the Creator and Owner of the heavens and the earth in His infinite wisdom has solutions to every problem or challenge, whether named or unnamed. Significantly, God loves to give this wisdom to His children who seek solutions to challenges that come their way. Besides, creative people always have divinely received ways to navigate difficult circumstances and satanic obstacles placed in their pathways.

The Bible records that Daniel’s young life was threatened by a hasty death sentence from King Nebuchadnezzar who said that all the wise men in Babylon should be killed on account of their inability to tell him the dream he dreamt and forgot. Rather than stew on dying young at the hands of whom everybody probably referred to as a wicked king, Daniel sought solutions to the problem. He ran to God to reveal King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream alongside the interpretation to him. God honored Daniel’s request and the dream alongside its interpretation was revealed to Daniel. As soon as Daniel told the King his dream and interpretation, the killings stopped.

Prepare for Abundance

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Preparation for abundance is not idling away because God promises overflowing abundance. Please read Deuteronomy Chapters 15 verse 6, 28 verses 12 to 13 and Malachi Chapter 10 verses 10 to 12. Rather, it is obeying the voice of God to carry out whatever divine instructions He gives through the Holy Spirit, in His word or through His anointed servants. The biblical case studies who prepared for abundance and received abundance were productively engaged in the divine tasks assigned to them that would bring about the required abundance. Therefore, take up your tools and work the divine tasks diligently so that your great expectations of overflowing abundance would not be cut short. Also, preparations for abundance are as diverse as people and professions are diverse. 

Prophet Elijah had prophesied abundant rain in the midst of a drought that was well on in its third year. Such audacity! But Elijah did not speak by his own spirit. He did not speak cleverly devised lies to massage the ego of the people. He spoke as directed by God and by the Spirit of God. However, some preparations had to take place such as the restoration of the altar of God and worship of God in Israel; the elimination of the prophets of Baal as well as destruction of their altars. The moment Elijah accomplished these tasks, he instructed King Ahab to go eat and drink; in essence, celebrate the abundant rain. He also advised Ahab to hurry home so that he would not be drenched by the heavy downpour. While Ahab was feasting, Elijah who was not with the divine preparatory tasks commenced his multi level intercession for the heavenly release of the abundant rain. He did not give up until he saw results. Thereafter, he sent word to Ahab. The land was drenched in abundant rain. 

God Bless You

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

You are welcome to Olives International, the blog designed to help you create wealth with the undiluted word of God and the manifold grace of God. It is also where God reigns supreme. He will do immense good for you in Jesus mighty name. God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that you think or ask of. Keep visiting Olives International. We love you and pray that God will bless you and meet you at your point of need in Jesus mighty name.  God Who ordered your steps here today will surely meet you at your every point of need and make you rooted in Christ Jesus to the glory of His holy name. God bless you. 

Jesus is here for you and whatever assails you. He is here to meet your needs, set the captives free and show you the right paths of life so that you become the success you desire to be as well as the excellent creature destined for great heights that God created you to be.

Hidden Riches of Secret Places

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

The hidden riches of secret places or treasures of darkness mentioned in Isaiah Chapter 45 verse 3 are God’s treasures to you, which you may or may not know about. You may even know about them but have no idea how to unlock them for both your personal benefit and that of humanity. However, the can be unlocked through a deep fervent consecrated relationship with God. Some classic and timeless Biblical examples include Joseph, Daniel, Bezalel, Oholiab, Solomon.

The information regarding how to unlock the hidden riches of secret places as well as the treasures of darkness are not in the public domain. They are with God and in the hands of God. They are the blessings of the deep, the blessings of heaven, of the womb and the breasts, the blessings that God pours out when He opens the windows of heaven for you. In essence, they are trade secrets, secrets you keep to your chest as they are not for everyone. That is why the Bible refers to them as hidden riches of secret places; treasures of darkness, blessings of the deep, the womb and the breasts. They have to be searched out, unlocked; so to speak from God. How?

Daniel for instance requested for answers to the king’s dream as well as its interpretation from God and God gave him the answers. Please see Daniel Chapter 2 verses 16 to 19. The Bible records that the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. This implies that it was a divine secret that Daniel accessed through prayers and that divine secret opened the doors for Daniel’s greatness, honor, fame, wealth and great desirability in Babylon.

From Prison to Palace

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Interesting, isn’t it; that a person without leverages can suddenly hit limelight, fame, wealth, power and honor? Beloved, the ways of God are past finding out for He is the only One Who can take anyone from obscurity to limelight  and from any prison whatsoever to the palace.

Though there are a number of stories about people who rose from the confinements of prison to palaces, the biblical Joseph best illustrates that story. Though Joseph was a slave in Egypt, Joseph treasured his assets, guarding them jealously and trading them for what could take him out of obscurity into limelight. Joseph’s assets include talent, knowledge resources, godly wisdom, expertise, fervent relationship with God, divine wisdom, fear of God, honesty, integrity, focus.

Daniel’s assets include integrity, honesty, fear of God.  Though the Biblical Daniel was not physically imprisoned, he alongside his three friends and all the wise men of Babylon were on death row and were being handpicked daily; from the privacy and luxury of their homes for execution. This was as good as being imprisoned; untimely death with every potential for blessing humanity locked up in early death. Daniel was very young then, full of life and great dreams for a long flourishing life of service to God and humanity as well as the attendant benefits of comfort and wealth. He therefore refused to die young and unfulfilled because he knew that the will of God for him was to live long. Please see Psalm 91. He therefore boldly and courageously requested for time to unravel the King’s dream. God granted Daniel favor and further emboldened, Daniel called for an emergency prayer meeting to request help from God so that their lives would be spared. God again showed up and the secret was made known to Daniel. Their lives alongside the lives of the wise men were spared. But significantly, Daniel and his friends moved from the imprisonment of death row to significant positions in the palace and in the administration of affairs in the kingdom of Babylon. Please read Daniel Chapter 2 for details of the story as well as greater insight from the Holy Spirit.

As if this was not enough, Daniel’s life was further threatened but again God intervened and Daniel rose from the prison of the den of lions to the pinnacle of leadership. Please see Daniel Chapter 6. His three friends were also on death row a second time; albeit in the prison of a fiery furnace of fire. But God Who can always be trusted to deliver His own intervened and their lives were not only spared, but the worship of Jehovah, the El-Shaddai God was enthroned in Babylon and they were promoted higher in the administrative affairs of Babylon. Tales of prison to palaces!

Wisdom for Seed Planting 5

Written by Uyoyou Charles-Iyoha

Why Plant on Such Grounds

Inattention – you were not paying attention while planting so your seeds probably fell by the wayside; the path to the farm; rock on the path to the farm and the thorn bushes along the path to the farm.

Thoughtlessness – you did not do any thinking not to talk of strategic thinking about where to plant your seeds therefore any ground, just any ground would suffice. A little thinking would have given you options of planting grounds and a little more probing to analyze the options (referred to as strategic thinking) would have led you to the right planting ground albeit good ground where you could plant your seeds knowing your seeds would be safe and secure, have sufficient moisture for nourishment and there would be no contention for nourishment between your plants and thorns.

Non chalance – you do not give a hoot. After all they are your seeds; aren’t they? But you forget a critical point. They are divine endowments for divine purposes. What will you tell God, the Owner of the seeds on the day of reckoning?

Laziness – too lazy to go the whole hog of identifying the right place  and even if someone else identifies it for you, like the lazy man described in Proverbs Chapter 26 verse 13, you will see several lions on the way and have the supposedly perfect excuse for not even attempting to know the place talk much of preparing the place for planting so you can have great bountiful harvests.

Wisdom for Seed Planting 2

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Significantly, your seed is God’s divine deposit in you for you to become sought after and great in life. If you do not respect, value it and trade it for profit by paying attention to it, how then will you become sought after, great, wealthy and successful? Please see Proverbs Chapter 27 verses 23 to 27. The Bible standard is for you to diligently pay attention to; nurture and care for whatever God blessed you with to a profit. 

To do this you have to find an enabling environment to plant your seeds so that they are like pearls cast before swine. For example the seeds which fell on rock sprouted but they withered away because they lacked moisture. Moisture is critical to the survival of pants. Unfortunately, rocks do not retain water; therefore will not have moisture to sustain the growth of any plant. Besides, rocks take the toll of hot sunshine especially in tropical regions and on very sunny days. No plant no matter how resilient can survive in such an environment. The sprouted seeds withered away as quickly as they had sprouted. What a shame, what a pity! The bottom line is to avoid environments that are not conducive to the growth and fruition of your seed as such environments are inimical to your success. The wayside environment did not even give the seeds that fell on it a chance to germinate like the rock did. However, the growth transient – germinate to wither and not to fruit. This is not the will of God for anyone endowed with divine seeds. It is my prayer that God in His infinite mercy will forbid such evil in your life in Jesus mighty name. 

Partner with Sound Minds 2

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Sound minds delegate. It is strength to delegate when you should. Jesus Christ delegated to His disciples. He sent them to preach the gospel, heal the sick, cast out demons and raise the dead. The Apostle Paul delegated to his mentees. Delegation speeds up processes and saves time, a much limited resource. Additionally, you can achieve so much through delegation.

A sound mind knows when and how to initiate processes that move an organization; or businesses forward. The Bible describes Abigail as a woman of good understanding. She had the God given wisdom to manage Nabal and all of his character flaws; including his great love of wine and feasting. She could tell when he was drunk and always refrained from discussions with him (1^st Samuel Chapter 25 verses 36 to 37). She was indeed a wise woman who did not allow Nabal’s foolishness to affect her and impact her life negatively. Abigail knew how and when to speak to him.

This is clearly demonstrated in her response to the servant who reported the incident between Nabal and the servants of David. Rather than complain or moan or wait for Nabal to arrive, the Bible records that she made haste to appease David and his men in order to save Nabal, herself and the entire household. The depth of her good understanding is revealed when she meets with David. First she bows to the ground in greeting David and then takes responsibility for Nabal’s offense. She apologizes and thanks David in advance for not avenging himself. She also tells David that God would avenge his enemies. She then presented her gift. She also begs David to remember her when God has avenged all his enemies. David was overwhelmed. What sane man would continue on the journey to annihilate Nabal and his household after Abigail’s great performance? None I believe but perhaps a Nabal.

So David thanked Abigail for her advice and received the gifts. By kind words and actions, Abigail saved her entire household from destruction.

Brand Yourself to Wealth

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Your brand is the sum total of your true worth, capabilities and influence.  This includes your contacts – all the people you know that can support your brand. Your brand is wealth worth billions if only you know what to do with the brand.

The role of relationships and partnerships in branding is very significant. The significance of right relationships in quality branding cannot be overemphasized. That is why you should engage in right relationships such as spiritually, physically, financially and mentally rewarding relationships that brand and position you strategically for wealth, success, honor and fame.

Spiritually rewarding relationships are relationships that build you, strengthen and enhance you spiritually. The greatest and best of such relationships that I can think of is your relationship with God through Jesus Christ and the indwelling Presence of God through the precious Holy Spirit. This relationship not only guarantees life in eternity with Jesus Christ (John Chapter 3 verses 1 to 5, 16 to 19); but knowledge, understanding and wisdom for daily living (Isaiah Chapter 48 verse 17); which ultimately leads to wealth and success.

All You Have is What You Need

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Everything you need to resolve whatever needs, crisis, is within your reach through Christ Jesus (Philippians Chapter 4 verse 19) because God is your Shepherd and He has made abundant provision for all you need. It may appear small or insignificant but it would be wise to follow the advice of Scriptures in Zechariah Chapter 4 verses 6 to 10, “Do not despise the small beginning for the eyes of the Lord rejoice to see the work begin”. Please see also Psalm 44 verse 3, Haggai Chapters 1 and 2, Job Chapter 8 verse 7, 42 verse 12, Ezekiel Chapter 36 verse 11.

Beloved, what you need is inside of you, within easy reach. Ask God to open your eyes of understanding to see it and give you the relevant wisdom to use it as He would have you use it to achieve the desired results you seek in Jesus mighty name. Please see Genesis Chapter 21 verse 19, 22 verses 13 to 14.

The widow of the indebted son of the prophet had what she referred to as only a jar of oil in the house. That jar of oil was more than sufficient to pay off the debts that threatened debt bondage  as well as provide abundant resources for them to live on for the rest of their lives because she obeyed the divine instructions from Prophet Elisha to use what she had to get what she desired. Please see 2^nd Kings Chapter 4.

Why You Should Not Borrow

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

For the LORD your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you. Deuteronomy Chapter 15 verse 6 

The Lord will open for you His good treasure house, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. Deuteronomy Chapter 28 verse 12

But you shall remember [with profound respect] the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore (solemnly promised) to your fathers, as it is this day. Deuteronomy Chapter 8 verse 18

You are a lender to the nations. Why should a lender to the nations borrow especially when God says you will not borrow?  Secondly, the Bible says that God will give you power to get wealth. The Lord Who promises to give you power to get wealth will always ensure that wealth accrues to you so that you will always have more than enough to live on. But you must be productively engaged like the wise and faithful servants who received five and two talents each. They deployed the talents diligently and multiplied them. Beloved, if you are productively engaged in financially, mentally and spiritually rewarding activities, God will honor His word and bless all the work of your hands as stated in Deuteronomy Chapter 28 verses 12, 8; 30 verse 9, 24 verse 19, 23 verse 20, 16 verse 15, 15 verse 18, 10, 12 verses 7 and 18.  Additionally, God in His infinite mercies and wisdom will give you the wisdom you require to own unlimited financial resources so that you always operate in and walk in financial dominion. The Biblical King Solomon is a classic example.

Take Vantage Positions 2

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Cities do not happen on hills by chance. They are deliberately, purposefully, consciously and strategically planted, built and set on hills for specific purposes or reasons ranging from protection, security, visibility, etc. whatever be the reason,  the import is that cities are set on hills purposefully and by choice.

A hill is a conspicuous, strategic and vantage location that gives visibility to both people below the hill and those on top of the hill. Those below see the city on the hill easily as opposed to other nearby cities on lowland. And for those on the hills, they can easily see intruders, predators, competition, enemies and have sufficient time to prepare to repel such attacks.

The essence of a product or service is to impact and bless people by adding value to their lives. And when people discover this, they will definitely seek the product or service. But if the product or service is buried in a hideout, an obscure, inaccessible terrain, how does the product get to the people? How do people access the product or service? Therein lies the wisdom of setting cities on hills so that they will not be hidden. Joseph was thrown into prison, hopefully to obscure him into oblivion so that his lights would stop shining. Joseph chose the path of making prison a hill. He shone his lights as brightly as prison allowed him and prison became a launch pad, a springboard to global limelight, relevance, significance and dominance.

Beloved, make the effort to shine your lights as brightly as God would have you shine them wherever God placed you to shine them. That way, you will leapfrog whatever limitations and barriers that the enemy attempts to place in your path. This is not to say that you should sit docile and passive; refuse to make conscious, deliberate purposeful efforts to build and plant on a hill for global visibility. It is your responsibility to do so but trust God.

Strategize Your Way to Wealth

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Sometimes, a great mental paradigm shift is required for anyone desiring wealth to get wealth. This is because certain mindsets that are contrary to wealth production have to be discarded so that the mindsets that allow for wealth production are internalized and utilized for wealth production.

For instance, if you are blessed with the gift of strategic thinking that enables you to think, think through issues, analyze them to come up with solutions, then you are a strategist who should be productively engaged in strategizing issues. This is more like operating the gift of wisdom; a problem solving skill which is a gift from God that you are blessed with. Your task, job and responsibility is to strategize the solutions and not necessarily immerse yourself in the tasks. Joseph supervised the work of collecting and storing up the abundant harvests. He did not plant the crop, work the land, harvests the grains, bag the grains, transport the grains, and build the storehouses. Other people carried out these tasks taking instructions from Joseph. Joseph did not swamp himself in activities that would clog his mental processes, major tools he required for strategizing. He delegated the non strategizing processes to other people and concentrated on developing strategies - thinking and analyzing and in the process expanded the development plan to include the government land use act, sale of food to other nationalities to generate additional income for Pharaoh.

A strategist who does not delegate non strategizing processes is headed for oblivion. That was why Jethro advised Moses not to wear himself out in judging the people alone as he could actually delegate those processes to other competent people in the community.

The prophet Elisha never engaged in non strategizing processes. He always delegated, issuing instructions that only total and prompt obedience to provided solutions to those who needed the solutions. He instructed the widow of the indebted son of the prophet to go package oil - albeit in borrowed vessels. She obeyed and the long term siege of financial challenges that was fast becoming a trans-generational problem was solved.

A Billion Dollars is Possible

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

A billion dollars is a lot of money. To some people, it takes a lifetime to make such money while to some other people, such money can be made in a twinkle of an eye, from a single transaction or multiple transactions. Unfortunately, there are people who believe that such money cannot be made in several lifetimes not to talk of a single life time. Well there are no several lifetimes as this present lifetime on planet earth is the only life time anyone blessed with life here has to make a billion or more dollars.

The Bible says that with God, all things are possible. Please see Mark Chapter 10 verse 27. God will always make a way where there is no way. You can make a billion dollars or even more because God your Father owns inexhaustible wealth and He has blessed you with the power to make wealth. That power to make wealth is not as a result of your own making or strength as stated in Zechariah Chapter 4 verse 6. That power comes by the Spirit of God Who empowers you and teaches you to make wealth in leaps and bounds (Isaiah Chapters 58 verse 11; 48 verse 17, 1^st Corinthians Chapter 2 verses 9 to 16) by giving you divine direction to abundance (Genesis Chapter 26), divine wisdom for abundance at a time of famine (Genesis Chapter 41) as well as destroying satanic yokes and limitations (Isaiah Chapter 10 verse 27). No one makes a billion dollars by personal strength.

The Bible records that “Then Isaac sowed in the land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him. The man began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous”. Genesis Chapter 26 verses 12 to 14. What Isaac did was intelligent investing by the Spirit of God. Intelligent investing is not speculation. Speculation is gambling. Intelligent investing is planting seeds in good soil and nurturing same for a great harvest. Speculation on the other hand is scattering seeds so that some fall by the wayside, on thorns, on rocky places. They may or may not grow, grow and may not bear fruit, or just one or two grow and fruit. I pray that God in His infinite mercy will guard your feet and prosper you to continue prospering until you become very wealthy in Jesus mighty name.

Beloved, it is time to discard the impossibility mentality. Explore the possibilities of building big from the scratch. It is possible. Peter cast the net on the right side of the boat as instructed by the Lord Jesus Christ and he caught a multitude of fish that took several men to draw in the catch. That is the right side of the boat that Jesus asked Peter to cast his net on. What was the result? Please, see John Chapter 21.

Experience and Enjoy the God of Pleasant Surprises

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Nothing takes the God of pleasant surprises by surprise which is why He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beautiful beginning and glorious end. God always goes ahead of the enemy to safeguard His people.  He is in control of everything in the universe.

He knew that there would arise a Pharaoh determined to annihilate the Jews in a progressively subtle manner. Yet, he allowed the birth of Moses, the one who would lead the children of Israel out of Egypt at a time like that. Moses’ parents would have given up but God gave Jechobed the wisdom to hide him for three months after which He gave her additional wisdom to keep him at the River on a specific day. Why that day? Jechobed was paid to nurse her own child. She utilized the opportunity well. She instructed Moses in the ways of God before taking him to the palace.

God had prepared the heart of Pharaoh’s daughter to see, have compassion on the child, adopt him to save his life and raise him in the same institution that sought to take his life. What an awesome glorious God we serve.

Quite interesting and instructive is the fact that many at times, the devil thinks that God is not with us. But God always knows what the enemy is planning to do and plans ahead of time His mighty deliverance for us. As far as the devil and Pharaoh were concerned, the Israelites were shut in by the wilderness. They took advantage of the situation to strike but unknown to them, God had perfected the perfect exit strategy. Please see Exodus Chapter 14 as well as 1^st Corinthians Chapter 2 verse 9.

Haman thought his game of annihilate the Jews was over. But God had gone ahead of Haman long before he conceived his evil plan by placing Esther in the palace.

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.