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Faith, Focus, and Financial Flow: The True Path to Business Growth · Closing Sales in Nigeria - Sales For The Nigerian Business Person: The Sales and Marketing Blueprint

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  Hello and welcome. My name is Tavishima Ayede.
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  Today on the podcast I want us to look at, I want to look at
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  this question, does the Holy Spirit know anything about
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  money? I know some of you are cocking
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  your heads and wondering like, where did that come from?
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  Let me repeat question for today is does the Holy Spirit know
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  anything about money? Yes.
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  Some of you are curious why am I tackling this kind of question
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  today? And this is the reason why
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  there's been some stuff going on on LinkedIn, a post that is
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  trending, I believe semi trending and it has inspired,
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  you know people to come out and do their own version.
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  And basically there's this guy in the Niger tech space who said
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  that the Holy Spirit led him into a deal that got him a few
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  100 mil. I can't remember how much.
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  Well, you know, correct. Monies are like I got 200 M, 300
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  M, something like that, like good money, the kind of money I
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  want. And anyway, here credits us all
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  to the Holy Spirit. And so, you know, lots of people
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  coming up with their own posts, you know, now God, you know, the
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  Holy Spirit help me do this, the Holy Spirit help me do that,
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  blah, blah, blah. And that's the reason why I'm
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  tackling this question today because those people who are
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  coming forward to testify, they mean well.
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  And the the more testimonies that we have, the better because
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  God is the source and the font of every single blessing that we
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  have. But I'm making today's podcast
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  recording. Don't worry, this one is going
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  to be very short for those of you who don't like theology or
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  anything Spirit Coco, this one, I'll just be be brief.
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  At least I'll try and make you brief.
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  But even though well meaning, I honestly think some of these
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  kind of posts or some of these kinds of world views will have
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  people thinking about the wrong things or have people chasing
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  the wrong things or setting up improper relationships with God,
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  with the Holy Spirit. So that's the reason why I'm
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  making today's podcast episode. So does the Holy Spirit know
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  anything about money and business?
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  The simple answer is yes, as part of the Triune, as part of
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  the Trinity, as part of the source and the font of all
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  knowledge. Yes, the Holy Spirit knows stuff
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  about money. But is this the primary reason
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  why we turn to the Holy Spirit? In fact, traditionally speaking,
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  what is the role of the Holy Spirit?
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  Don't worry, those of you who are beginning to get a headache
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  now, don't worry, I'll wrap up very soon.
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  Don't worry, don't be afraid. I'm not trying to convert you.
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  I'm not talking to my other brothers and sisters within the
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  fold, within the faith, who might be getting one or two
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  things mixed up. So traditionally speaking, the
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  role of the Holy Spirit is to mediate grace.
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  To mediate means you want to pass something through from one
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  place to another. So those of us who have a legal
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  background, we used to mediate disputes.
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  Person A is scrolling with person B.
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  We're trying to get to a solution.
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  I am the one in the middle, the lawyer.
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  I'm the one that will now mediate the whole thing.
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  So that will arrive at peace. So traditionally, the role of
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  the Holy Spirit has been to mediate grace.
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  Now some people are now the next question is now what is grace?
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  Unfortunately, because of, you know, Pentecostalism is now big
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  and stuff like that, people have lost their roots in the ancient
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  faith and people now think grace equals favor, grace equals
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  hammer, grace equals divine health, grace equals money,
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  grace equals everything working for my own good.
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  Now all those things are nice, but traditionally speaking, that
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  is not what grace means. A lot of you are Christians in
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  the variety of ismia and my Bible.
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  Let me read it on my own and then you are coming up with all
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  these funny ideas. But this is not what the ancient
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  Christian communities have meant when they say grace, what grace
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  used to mean before. Now people saying grace means
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  everything, working together for my good.
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  What grace used to mean is that supernatural gift, supernatural
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  meaning it's God that is in charge.
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  It is above nature. It's not something that is a
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  part of our nature. And in that sense, those of you
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  who are saying grace means everything working together for
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  my good, in that sense you will have got that element right
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  because it is not something I do of my own accord.
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  It is something that God is giving me.
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  But traditionally, grace meant the supernatural gift that
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  allows man to acquire theological virtues.
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  Now, what are theological virtues?
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  Virtue just means you're trying to align yourself towards what
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  is good. Of course, when you hear
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  theological, it means deriving from God.
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  So theological virtues were those virtues that help man to
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  properly see God, that helps man to properly approach God.
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  Those are the theological virtues.
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  And then grace is that gift that helps you to now see, to now
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  approach, to now come near to God.
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  And those theological virtues traditionally were called faith,
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  hope and charity. I repeat, faith, hope and
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  charity. Faith, the supernatural gift of
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  God that allows you to believe without doubting everything that
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  God has revealed. I repeat, faith, that
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  supernatural gift that allows you, that helps you to believe
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  everything that God has revealed without doubting.
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  It's necessary in our work with God.
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  We have to believe what God says, but we can't believe it on
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  our own. We need the grace to do that and
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  the grace helps with faith. The next is hope.
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  Hope is again that supernatural gift from God that allows us to
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  trust that God will do what he says He will do.
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  So He's not just believing without doubting.
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  We also have to trust. It's more of a fidelity thing.
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  We're trusting and we're working.
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  Then the final one now is charity.
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  Also supernatural gift that allows us to love God first
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  allows us to love me, myself. We have to love ourselves, then
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  allows us to love our neighbor as ourselves.
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  I repeat charity. First I will love God, then I
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  will love myself, then I will love my neighbor as myself.
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  So traditionally when Christians say Holy Spirit, they meet that
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  person of the Trinity who is providing grace.
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  Grace to do what? To know God, to trust in what he
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  has revealed, to love Him, to love yourself, and to love your
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  neighbor as yourself. So traditionally when Christians
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  run around shouting Holy Spirit and shouting grace, these are
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  the sorts of things that we are talking about.
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  We're not talking about 300 million naira deals.
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  If you go to Christians of the Orient, the older communities,
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  the Christian communities that have still remained from
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  Apostolic times till now, the communities in Turkey, the other
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  communities in Asia Minor, communities in Jerusalem,
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  communities in Egypt, some communities in Ethiopia, those
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  ones that have been around since Apostolic times, they talk about
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  theosis or divination. Now, this might sound scary, but
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  anyway, let me just say it, even though it sounds scary to you,
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  Christians of the Orient, the Eastern Orthodox, the Orthodox,
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  the Oriental Christians, they talk about theosis and
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  divination. That means becoming like God.
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  Since it's a scary concept, I'm not going to talk about that
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  much because, you know, nowadays we have too many New Age people.
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  So when you hear something like, you know, divination, you say,
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  and what are you saying? But then we'll talk about later
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  one-on-one, if any of you happen to know me one-on-one, you know,
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  let's chat. What is beyond the scope of this
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  podcast? So in some of the older
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  apostolate communities, these are the sorts of things that
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  they're talking about when we're talking about the Holy Spirit
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  and grace, theosis, divination, that gift that will allow us to
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  draw closer and to become closer to God.
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  And then if you look at one very basic something, you just go
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  ahead and you say, OK, it's me on my Bible.
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  You want to be reading the Bible.
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  If you start from Matthew and start reading through to
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  Revelation, you'll find one thing really, really important
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  or really interesting. Christ comes and Christ does not
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  say. The promise is you will get 300
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  million naira. He never said that.
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  The promise seems to be if you start reading from Matthew, not
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  picking the parts of the Bible that you like, you're going to
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  pick Isaiah. And you say, you know, he bore
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  our stripes. And because of that, I will
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  never fall sick. Go and read for yourself.
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  Start from Matthew. When Jesus Christ starts
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  talking, what does he say? He says repent for the Kingdom
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  of God is here. The same thing John says the
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  John John that's John the Baptist also says repent for the
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  Kingdom of God is here. So by the time John the Baptist
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  hits the scene and Jesus Christ hits the scene, the call is
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  reconciliation and repentance. And so traditionally when people
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  talk about the Holy Spirit and grace, these are the sorts of
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  things that people are talking about.
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  OK, I've done 10 minutes. Let me bring it to a close
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  because it's a business podcast. Let me not chase people away.
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  But bottom line is if you feel like the Holy Spirit LED you to
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  300 M, all well and good. But traditionally when we talk
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  about the holy period, this is not what we mean.
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  Traditionally, we'll talk about the holy period.
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  We mean that part of the Trinity that is helping us grow in
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  grace, that will help us with faith, that will help us with
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  hope, that will help us with love of God, love of self, love
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  of neighbor, who will help us to grow closer to God as we should
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  as his children. Help us to reconcile, help us to
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  repent. Now, should we be calling on God
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  every day for business growth? The answer is yes, because it's
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  there in our Father. Give us this day, Our Daily
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  Bread. So yes, wake up every day and
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  you say God bless my Hazu, I'm going to go and do marketing.
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  God bless my house, I'm doing sales.
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  God bless my house, I'm baking cake.
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  God bless the work of my hands. I'm going for negotiation.
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  God, you know, cover me, open my eye, you know, help me as I'm
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  going into this situation. Yes, by all means we should pray
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  for these things because God is the source of our sustenance.
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  Anything that we have, we have from him, Our life, our success,
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  everything we have, we have from him.
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  So by all means, wake up. I said her prayer that God bless
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  the work of my hand and then go boldly and give you a best shot.
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  But please stop invoking the Holy Spirit for prophets.
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  That's not what this whole setup is about.
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  Is not chase after money because money is good.
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  Money is good in itself and for Christians we can exercise the
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  use of of money towards magnanimity and lots of good in
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  the world, which is why Jesus Christ says take this filthy
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  money and use it to do good. So please we should chase money
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  because money is good but it's not by divine right and the Holy
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  Spirit is not a prophet making machine.
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  And in fact, in the ancient, more apostatic rights of
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  Christianity, we talk about the sin of simony Simon, the
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  magician in the work of arts who saw what was going on.
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  And he said, Peter, how far now, Paulo, I better come here.
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  This Holy Spirit that you guys are talking about, How far now?
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  Let me raise you guys some money.
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  And you know you solved me now, so I can have some of this Holy
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  Spirit too. So this thing is not new.
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  From then until now, there are people who have wanted to say,
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  Holy Spirit, how far now, Hookah, brother, help me collect
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  some 500 M. The temptation has always been
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  there, but let's be careful, Please.
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  Let's be very, very careful. So if the Holy Spirit has LED
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  you to 500 and 301 billion, you know, we thank God.
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  But just be careful with the posts that you're putting up.
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  Let's not lead people into thinking that the main reason
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  why we hook up with God or the reason why I become Christian or
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  the reason why I become why we have a devotion to the Holy
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  Spirit is because we're trying to get 500 and we're trying to
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  get 1 billion. We're trying to get now that's,
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  that's not the point. But yes, we should chase money
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  because money is good. And that is the whole point of
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  this podcast. We are trying to make this money
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  and we will get this money. We will hammer.
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  We all flex together. Well, let's not get it twisted.
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  We are sometimes putting out wrong vibes and getting people
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  to misunderstand what Christianity is.
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  And you know what we're all doing here Sometimes, some of
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  us, we mean well by coming out to declare the testimony that
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  before my bank account was 0, Now my bank account IS300 M and
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  it's because of the Holy Spirit. Let's just make sure that we do
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  not lead people astray. Anyway, I promise you guys a
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  short episode and let me just stop here.
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  But just know that if you ever wake up and find yourself in a
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  situation where you are trying to bend certain outcomes to your
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  will using God or the Holy Spirit, you're going down a
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  slippery slope. Yeah, actually are.
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  You need to behave like these New Age people because that's
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  what New Age people do, and they have infiltrated the business
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  education space. You wake up in the morning, you
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  align your chakra, you call on the divine energies, and then
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  you manifest so that everything will fall according to your
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  will. If you wake up and you're
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  finding yourself kind of in that camp, you, you're in a dangerous
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  place. You're entering into that new
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  age, you know, excuse my French New Age bullshit.
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  So be careful. Anyway, let me leave it like
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  that. It was supposed to be a short
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  episode. But don't worry, if this is the
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  first time you're listening to this podcast, look, don't be
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  afraid. Don't run away.
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  This is not a theological podcast.
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  This is not a podcast for Christian apologetics.
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  I am Catholic, I take my faith seriously, I take philosophy
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  seriously, I take theology seriously.
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  So once in a while I might talk about these sorts of things, but
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  to be honest, there are over 1200 episodes, Abby 1100 and
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  something episodes that have been done so far.
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  This is the only podcast episode wherever I addressed something
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  like this. Everything else is all about how
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  to make this filthy as in stupid bastard money because that's my
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  goal and I'm assuming that's your goal as well.
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  So just like that guy made 300 M, me too hard to testify that
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  you know what bank account was at 0 today my bank account is at
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  300 M and next year we are projected that bank account
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  should be at 1.2 billion. So me to only give that
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  testimony, that's the focus of this podcast.
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  That's what we do here and that's the reason why I focus on
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  sales and marketing challenges because that's how we're going
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  to make progress in our business.
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  We will pray and we'll trust, but we will learn the systems.
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  We will learn how to sell. We will learn how to figure out
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  who's the ideal customer. We will learn how to target
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  them, whether it's advertising or whether it's walking up on
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  somebody and trying to have a conversation.
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  We will learn how to have that conversation.
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  We will learn how to figure out what does this person need?
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  What is the real, real, real problem that they're trying to
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  solve. We will learn how to figure out,
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  do I have the skill set to satisfy this person?
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  Do I have the inventory to satisfy this person?
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  Can I put together the team that will run this thing profitably?
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  We will learn how to do good customer service and good follow
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  up. Is this person happy?
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  Did they achieve what they wanted?
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  Because we're trying to make sure that this person is going
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  to come back and do business with us again and again and
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  again. And after a while, the person
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  should even start referring people to us.
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  We will learn how to maximize customer, customer lifetime
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  value. That's the whole point of this
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  podcast. We will make that money.
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  We will do that through learning about sales and marketing, and
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  we will chase this money with all the skill that we have, with
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  all the talent that we have, and we'll give it an incredible
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  amount of focus. We will chase this money because
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  money is good. The same way we chase food,
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  money is good, we'll chase it, but don't get it twisted.
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  The whole point of aligning with God, aligning is the Holy Spirit
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  is not to make that 300 M. In fact, whether you get it or
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  you don't get it, quite frankly, it's not within your control
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  because they say man disposes, you know, God disposes.
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  Abby, how does it? You know, the best we can do is
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  we know that this is good. We've set our sights on it.
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  We will chase it and then we'll trust in God that the outcome
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  will be good. So anyway, don't run away, just
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  hang in here. This is the focus of the
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  partners want to make good money, we will make it through
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  sales and marketing. All right, let me just leave it
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  there before I say something. Now chase somebody away because
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  I only have about 2000 900 ish subscribers on Spotify and I'm
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  actually trying to get more subscribers trying to grow the
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  community more So I beg you guys don't run away.
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  This is this is a money something money through answer
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  all right so that's it. Remember, if you would love to
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  connect, you can call, send a text message, or send a WhatsApp
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  message on 08064662140. Thank you very much for your
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  time and attention. I'll catch you next time.
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  Same place in your headphones or in your speakers.
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  And please share the podcast if you're getting value from it.
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  I'm trying to blow. All right, So I'll catch you
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  guys tomorrow.