Grow Your Business

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Your business given to you by God is your key to overflowing generational financial abundance.  To grow your business, you must invest in the business. You have to invest time, your expertise, financial as well as other resources in the business. Your talents as well as other gifts will have to be invested in the business.

You are probably not experiencing that financial abundance because you are working your business as God would have you work it. You also have to appreciate the business and celebrate the business. You are possibly not paying full attention to working the business because you consider the business insignificant, something to while away time, to put some food in your stomach when actually that business is divinely designed to give you overflowing abundance that will span generations if Christ tarries. Celebrating that business and obeying God fully will bring in the desired full yields that would birth exponential increase and overflowing financial abundance from the business. Unfortunately, you probably assume that running around and celebrating the businesses of other people while yours lies fallow when it should be blossoming is what will give you overflowing financial abundance. Beloved, you are wrong. You should stop that circular dance that takes you nowhere and do something smart and profitable with your business.

Use Your Disadvantages to Advantage

 Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

A very wealthy chief tax collector named Zaccheaus wanted to see Jesus. But he had a challenge. Multitudes always thronged around Jesus and because Zacchaeus was of short stature, it would be a herculean task to see Jesus standing. Despite the challenge, Zacchaeus was undaunted. He was determined to see Jesus and no one would stop him. So he put his creative juices to task to come up with the best possible way of seeing Jesus despite his height advantage. He spotted a sycamore tree ahead, quickly ran ahead of the crowd and climbed up into the tree just so he could see Jesus.

God noticed and Jesus also noticed for it was not a coincidence that Jesus looked up at the tree and saw Zacchaeus. Jesus also asked Zacchaeus to hurry up and come down from the tree so that He would visit with Zaccheaus. The Bible records that Zacchaeus hastily came down from the tree, received Jesus joyfully and most importantly, Zaccheaus received salvation. What constituted a challenge that could have hindered his divine encounter with Jesus actually turned out to be a stepping stone as Zaccheaus creatively navigated his way out of it. His strategic position on top of the tree made him a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden. Please see Matthew Chapter 5 verse 14. Jesus saw him, the multitudes saw him and he became the cynosure of all eyes when Jesus asked him to come down from the tree so He could visit with him.

Speed Up the Processes

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

To speed up processes, you require specific clear directions from God. Once the specific clear directions are followed through, you gain speed, achieve instant success because you actually hit target right on the spot. You would no longer experience delays on account of wandering, confusion that ultimately lead to stagnation and non arrival at divine destination.

Do not major on minors. In point of fact, refuse to major on minors. Define your majors and give prime attention to majors. Throw out or completely ignore for now any minors which do not in any way advance your majors as they could be the distractions that you do not need right now. Simply put, reappraise your priorities.

Work hard at evolving by continuously improving your performance to enhance your brand and whatever it is you do.

Evaluate present knowledge base, expertise and other resources to determine if you need to quickly upgrade. Ideally you should always be upgrading.

Evaluate your present relationships and associations to see if they are in any way relevant to your major goals.

Partner with people, organizations and nations who invest quality time in profitable activities. Do not partner with people who love pleasure and spend quality time in pleasure loving activities rather than profitable labor. There is a link between poverty and pleasure. Please see Proverbs Chapters 23 verses 20 to 35, 21 verses 17 and 20. If you partner with who love sleep and pleasure, how fast and far can you really go? They will not only slow you down but may ultimately stop you from getting to destination. What do you do? Go as fast and far as God would have you go.

God Will Settle You

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

The suffering won't last forever. It won't be long before this generous God who has great plans for us in Christ - eternal and glorious plans they are! - will have you put together and on your feet for good. 1^st Peter Chapter 5 verse 10.

God still settles His people and He will settle you in Jesus mighty name. To settle means to give rest, put an end to a matter, dispute, issue, disagreement, bring you to a point of rest. To be settled means that wars must cease in your life. Please see Joshua Chapter 23 verse 1. Because God had given Joshua rest, Joshua aged gracefully. Only God can bring about rest for anyone because God knows how to make wars to cease. Please see Psalm 46 verses 9 to 10, Deuteronomy Chapter 8 verses 7 to 10.

One can enter into rest financially, maritally, medically, etc. God demonstrates divine settlement through divine surplus. God wants to take you to a position of divine surplus. There is a breakthrough coming to you that is intended to settle you. In 2^nd Kings Chapter 4 verses 1 to 7, the Bible records that God settled the widow of the indebted prophet. The yoke of financial poverty and indebtedness was destroyed in her life. She was settled financially and her sons were free of debt slavery.

Though Naomi suffered losses in Moab – she lost her husband and her two sons, God settled her through Ruth. However, it is instructive that Naomi took a great quality decision to return to her roots. That singular action brought about restoration and divine settlement for both Naomi and Ruth. Please read the entire book of Ruth for greater insight.

Beloved, this implies that one of the keys to divine settlement is to return to your roots, your first love, God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. If you do this sincerely, God will sort you out, open your eyes of understanding to where you missed it and help you make amends that will bring about the restoration and the settlement. The widow of the indebted prophet also returned to God by crying to the prophet Elisha for a solution.

Break with Tradition 3

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Severally, Jesus Christ broke tradition. He healed a number of sick people such as the bent over woman (Luke Chapter 13 verses 10 to 16); the man with palsy (Luke Chapter 14 verses 1 to 6) on the Sabbath day. He also requested drink from a woman of Samaria; what was not acceptable to the Jews and the Samaritans. The fact that this request culminated in the salvation of the residents and indigenes of a whole city speaks to the benefits of sometimes breaking with tradition. Please see John Chapter 4 verses 1 to 42 for details.

The ten lepers cried to Jesus to ask for mercy. They expected to be healed immediately but Jesus did not pronounce the word of healing. Rather, Jesus asked them to go and present themselves to the priests. Fortunately, they were wise enough to obey Jesus. The Bible records that as they proceeded to the priests abode or temple; they were cleansed. Their obedience to the instruction of God through Jesus Christ gave them complete healing. They could have argued that there was no point going to the priests since they were not yet cleansed. They could have refused to obey. After all they asked to be cleansed, a prerequisite to showing themselves to the priests. And rather than heal them, Jesus sent them to the priests – to be humiliated or driven away from decent society? But as they obeyed, journeying to the priest, they received their healing and could confidently show themselves to the priests. In point of fact, one of them returned to give thanks to Jesus when he noticed that they were cleansed on their way to the priests.

Break with Tradition 2

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

General Naaman was obviously stuck to tradition. That explains why he took the bilateral diplomatic approach to seeing the Prophet Elisha. Rather than go to Elisha directly as advised by the Israelite servant girl to his wife; Naaman went to see the King of Syria. Also rather than send for Elisha or instruct Naaman to go see Elisha directly; the King of Syria sent a diplomatic letter to the King of Israel asking him to cure Naaman of his leprosy. Unfortunately, that letter caused quite a stir in the court of the King of Israel after the letter was read.

The Bible records that the King of Israel tore his robe and lamented as to why the King of Syria chose to take advantage of the issue of Naaman’s leprosy to pick a quarrel with him. To start with, the King of Israel was not God who can always heal, kill or make alive. Why then would the King of Syria saddle the King of Israel with the responsibility and task of curing Naaman? Fortunately for the King of Israel, Prophet Elisha heard about the travails of the King and quickly sent a message to the King to send Naaman to him.

Break with Tradition

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

In about every area of life there are defined or set ways of doing things referred to as tradition. While tradition can be sometimes helpful, it can also become a clog in a person’s wheel of progress. Some traditions have become rustic and should either be innovated upon or completely discarded.

Do not be tied to a specific or particular way of doing things or achieving results especially if it does not turn out right. There are quite a number of ways of doing things. Therefore, always think; prayerfully think outside the box to come up with other options especially new ways of doing things and achieving results faster. In essence, be innovative. Like it is said, there are many ways to kill a rat. Who would have believed that pearls can be cultured; therefore produced in greater quantity; and prices are to an extent affordable making pearls accessible to all. And just before you think it is only pearls; diamonds are now being produced in laboratories. Who would prefer searching for them below when they can be manufactured up here?

The Apostle Peter required money severally and always got it, albeit in different ways. To access the temple tax money for him and Jesus Christ, Peter was instructed by Jesus Christ to go fishing with a hook and not a net or boat. Additionally, Peter was instructed to take up the fish that came first; implying that other fishes, probably bigger ones could come up and eat the first. Significantly, the bigger fishes would command more money than the small fish when sold but unfortunately, Peter’s catch from this fishing enterprising was not for sale. It was a sort of money bank that had the money Peter required for the temple tax and all Peter was required to do after casting in the hook was to bring up that fish; open its mouth; take out the money in it and of course pay to the relevant authorities. Please see Matthew Chapter 17 verses 24 to 27. That resolved the immediate financial need of temple taxes.