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Three Things You Must Do to Be Wealthy This Year - Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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If you want to be wealthy, you must respect these three, these
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tripartite dimensions. There is the spirit, the
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spiritual component to wealth and abundance.
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And don't let anyone tell you there are people who don't love
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God. They may not love God, but for
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sure there are spirits assisting them.
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I can tell you that for free in the world of wealth, in the
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world of real wealth beyond a certain threshold, it's
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impossible to join it there alone.
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There must be a spirit that has assists you either through your
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fraternity with occult groups. Are we together, your fraternity
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with all kinds of demonic groups, or Satan deceiving you
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into believing you are God of your own self and then inspiring
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you while you give him loyalty in returns.
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You see that there is always a spirit component to wealth.
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Always. Go and ask all the native
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doctors and the rest, people who come, I want to be rich, say
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slaughter chicken, do this, do that.
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And for some of those guys, you see some of these Yahoo boys,
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some of them confess, I did this, I sacrificed this, I did
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this. And truly you will see a
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semblance of the wealth with them, but there's no peace.
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Eventually they will be caught, but you will see that there was
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a similarity of results. There is a spiritual component
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to wealth #2 there is a mentality that brings wealth and
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abundance, dignity, patience, discipline, integrity, the law
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of process. All of these together are
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mentalities that bring people to the realm of wealth and
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abundance. And then of course, there is a
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physical or economic dimension. Your products, your services,
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understanding investments, understanding every other thing
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in between. But it's very, very important.
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There is the spirit component, the power to get well.
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There is a mindset or mindsets that lead to wealth and
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abundance. And then there are economic
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actions that you take that lead to wealth and abundance.
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The first reason or the first factor responsible for poverty,
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Please write it both in your heart and on your notes.
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Ignorance or incomplete knowledge of God's economic
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system. Ignorance or incomplete
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knowledge of God's economic system or financial system.
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The first reason why people are poor, they are ignorant or they
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have incomplete knowledge of God's economic system or God's
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financial system. You can extend this definition
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to also mean lack of education and financial literacy.
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Generally speaking, it's a knowledge thing.
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Lack ignorance or lack of complete knowledge, the
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knowledge of God's financial system.
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But generally speaking, it also extends to lack of education and
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financial literacy. The first reason why people fail
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is a knowledge problem or an incomplete knowledge problem #2
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the absence of skill or value that is needed and useful.
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Second reason, Proverbs 18 and 16 says the gift of a man make
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room, makes room for him and brings him before great men.
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If that man is not gifted, not skilled, not valuable, he will
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not come before great men. The lack, the absence of value,
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the absence of skill that is needed and useful on the line
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needed on the line useful. Don't tell me you are valuable.
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Don't tell me you are skillful. And let me tell you this off
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hand. The easiest way to be valuable
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is to be educated. The easiest way to be valuable
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in our world today is to be educated.
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I mean standard education as you know it, but then any other kind
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of education. The easiest way to be valuable
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to this world is to be educated. Either your standard secular
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education. Are we together?
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The person who is educated will most likely most likely has a
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higher chance of economic emancipation than one who's
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never seen the world of any school whatsoever.
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And education there extends to other meanings #1 the ability to
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read and write #2 the ability to communicate.
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Look at me. Do you know that there are many
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good jobs today in our world today, if you are monolingual,
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you're already in trouble. Did you know that the minimum is
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to at least be bilingual? The highest that I've seen is 10
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languages. I know somebody who speaks 10
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languages fluently. It gives you the leverage.
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You can get a job anywhere at all.
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There are people in this nation who can speak English fluently,
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Hausa fluently, Yoruba fluently, IBO fluently.
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For a case study. Did you know that those people
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are already at a vantage position?
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Because anywhere at all you can give them a job, you can promote
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them to go to the east, the West, the north, the South.
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They have that leverage in many schools right now, even schools
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abroad. They teach the children to be
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bilingual and it's become a great, a great advantage.
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There are people today who have lost jobs not because of
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incompetence. They cannot speak French.
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I remember one time we went to Cote d'Ivoire, My wonderful
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friend went to preach for him and when I got there, I just
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said, Father, I cannot speak French.
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I know you know, but I'm saying I'm saying it to you.
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I, I still need Jesus to be preached.
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I need miracles, signs and wonders.
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It was amazing what God did. But I thought to myself, I said,
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you see this, Imagine if I took French seriously.
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It's someone learning. Now there are people who speak
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Spanish. There are people who speak all
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kinds of things. Wonderful.
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We have lots of people that are PR desk here, I mean, who speak
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a number of languages. And sometimes when I'm
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counseling people, especially at Francophone brothers and
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sisters, I just call them quickly and I tell them be at
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liberty, speak whatever it is you can speak.
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I am just when I say education, it does not just mean knowledge
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along a particular field. Are we together?
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Your the, the, the summation of your quantitative reasoning.
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So education has 5 levels at least.
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There is the ability to read and write, that's the foundational
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level #2 there's the ability to reason and proffer solution.
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It's called quantitative reasoning.
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The ability to be intuitive. That's why they give you
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examples and they give you class work.
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Then there's the ability to communicate ideas intelligently.
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Then there is the knowledge along your field of endeavour.
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These are different layers of education.
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So many people say I am educated, but being monolingual,
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for instance, that's already a deficiency for you.
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Not knowing how to be intuitive, how to birth solutions, is
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already a deficiency for you. But I'm saying generally that
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the first reason why people are poor is that they do not have
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complete knowledge or they are completely ignorant.
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And then the absence of value and skill that is needed and
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useful. Let me give you #3 #3 very
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quickly, lack of productivity and excellence.
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And I remember Doctor David Gueley shared a bit of it during
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the convention. He spoke about provision moving
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from provision to productivity. If you recall the third reason.
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And this effects people both at a micro and a macro level.
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Nigeria has lots of mineral resources.
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Nigeria has lots of agricultural resources.
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But not to sell my nation short. I love my nation, but there are
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so many things. I believe that there's a lot
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being done, but a lot more can be done.
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Are we together? It's amazing how many African
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nations, they produce the raw materials agriculturally or in
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terms of minerals and because we don't have capacity to deliver
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finished products. Are we together?
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There are people who come and buy it for next to nothing.
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They go and process it, package it, make it the end product, and
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then they sell it back to you at a price that is high and then
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you have to buy because it's it's, they have placed value on
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it and it's increased the value. Once you are not productive and
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you are not excellent. If you do not know how to turn
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raw materials or raw ideas into processed or finished versions
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of themselves, you will be poor. You will be poor.
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How many of you know, I hope I'm right on that.
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Over 70% of the food we eat in Nigeria comes from the villages
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and yet there's poverty in the villages.
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Why is that? So the major farms are not in
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the city, they are in the villages, the countryside.
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And yet we get those things here because they do not have the
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capacity to preserve. Are we together?
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They sell the raw things like that, and then we process it and
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the shop just near the farm is buying something that came from
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the same farm. Productivity is powerful.
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The art of turning things from their raw form, their raw
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version, to its finished products.
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Imagine if I came and stood before you here and just started
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humming it. Ozanaye, Ozanaye.
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And then I just sang and said God gave it to me.
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That's wonderful. But once it's not been turned to
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the finished product, it affects how we can bless.
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Are we together now? Now there is an official video
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for it. There is an official audio for
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it. Are we together anywhere
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globally? The credit will be given to the
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people. And it was not done for
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financial gains. But even if it was for financial
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gains, at least I've found something I can eat with Are we
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together? If I want financial gains from
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it all, I just need to get promoters and say, look, here is
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something, here it is blessing people, but it's still spiritual
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intellectual property. Once there is no production,
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there will always be poverty. Once there is no production,
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there will be poverty. I know you farm cassava, I know
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you farm rice. I know you farm Millet.
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I know you farm cocoa, provided it is locked up somewhere at the
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back of your house, rottening there, and then people come with
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trucks and buy it for next to nothing.
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The reason why many African nations are sitting on wealth
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but cannot produce anything with it and cannot generate wealth
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from it is because we are largely a consumer society.
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We are not a production nation. But I know things are changing.
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In the name of Jesus, shout aloud, believe in Amen #4.
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The fourth reason for poverty, The absence of strategic
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networks and relationships. John 57.
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The absence of strategic networks and relationships.
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The imported man answered him, him being Jesus, and said, Sir,
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I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me in the pool.
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But while I am coming, another person who has a man to help him
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steps in and takes advantage of it.
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Building wealth and abundance in the Kingdom is not just a
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function of ideas. It's also a function of
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strategic networks. Say networks say relationships.
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Say networks say relationships. Again say networks say
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relationships. Very powerful, the leverage of
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strategic networks, networking with like minded people, like
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minded groups, like minded agencies, like minded
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associations, it can provide a leverage for you.
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A solo life is a way of poverty, that's for sure.
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The world is built on interdependence, both
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spiritually and economically. The absence of strategic
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networks and relationships #5 lack of spiritual empowerment.
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Deuteronomy 818. The fifth reason why many people
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are poor. Sometimes they are honestly hard
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working, sometimes they are honestly diligent, but they have
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an over dependence on their mind and intellect.
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And I can tell you I've seen all too many people in my lifetime.
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They pride at their intellect. I'm a smart person they say.
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I'm an intelligent person, they say.
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And then eventually they get frustrated.
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They are angry with themselves, with government, with the
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system, they say. Life is not giving me what I
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deserve. Unfortunately, if you are not
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empowered spiritually, every other thing can be right from a
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technical standpoint and you will still be poor.
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I was talking with someone a few years ago, I recall and the
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person was telling me some of the things he has done for this
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nation. I mean he's a brilliant man,
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brilliant man. You need to just talk with him
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for 5 minutes and you know that this man has stretched his
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intellect. But I looked at the man and not
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to judge, I could see the quality of his life.
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I could see without prophesying that this man is struggling,
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struggling financially. Have you seen people like that?
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If they open their mouth to attempted to say why are you
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like this? They are smart, they are
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brilliant. With all due respect, some of
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them are academicians. Did you know today, with all due
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respect and not to Sprite, there are many retired professors
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living in the rented apartment of their students.
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They brought the students from hundred level until he became a
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postgraduate and the man retired after 30 years, 35 years and
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could not own his home. They depend on their children to
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dress well. There are people like that
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across the globe. So this thing does not just end
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with economics and intellect. There is a divine dimension to
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it. And tonight is the night you
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will receive your portion in the name of Jesus.
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Let's say, for instance, I were a music minister.
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And that's what I do for a living.
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Say an example. Did you know how frustrating it
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will be? I can sing.
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I need the songs so that I can be blessed.
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Say, for instance, economically. And then I'm there laboring.
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Trying to write songs is not adding up.
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Trying to write songs is not adding up.
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And someone just goes to the secret place and in one hour
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comes up with a great song that becomes a great blessing.
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You know how unfair that is? That's the leverage you have
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when you have divine empowerment.
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So imagine merging intellectual prowess with that anointing.
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You become limitless. That becomes your portion from
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today, in the name of Jesus Christ, it will be clear before
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everyone, you are not alone, that heaven is back in you, back
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in your business. Number six, the sixth reason why
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people are poor from an economic standpoint is impatience.
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Proverbs 1311 Impatience, the cancer that has destroyed many
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potentials and not allow people to emerge.
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Impatience. It says wealth that is gotten by
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vanity shall be diminished, but he that gathered by labor shall
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increase impatience. This is where unfortunately the
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idea of get rich quick schemes come again.
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I don't believe in get rich slow.
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I believe in get rich gradually but gradually on time enough for
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you to fulfill your agenda. But get rich quick in terms of
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just I'm twisting life to deliver something.
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Eventually you pay the price. Ask the prodigal son.
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The prodigal son was not trying to get rich.
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He already had the money, yet he still lost it.
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Impatience, Impatience. I want to get it now because my
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classmate has it already. I need it now.
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I want to get it now because this other pastor, this other
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man of God, this other businessman, I need it now.
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There are times you don't need to hurry up, hurry life.
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Just take it gradually, but make sure you are consistent.
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Are we together #7 Laziness. The seventh reason why people
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are poor is because they are lazy.
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Proverbs 24. Please take note of these things
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you are learning. Proverbs 20 and verse 4.
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The slogard will not plough by reason of the cold.
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Therefore he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.
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The slow guard will not plough by reason of the cold.
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Therefore he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.
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Laziness Proverbs 1227. Proverbs 12/27.
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The slothful man roasted not what he took in the hunting, but
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the substance of the diligent man will be precious.
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This right here also double S as productivity.
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A lazy man will pay the price to hunt, but to roast it and
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increase the value, you say no, no, no, I don't want to go
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through the rigor of smoking it. And he leaves it there and it
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begins to rot until he does not have any value again.
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A young man who is sleeping the sleep of an old man will be
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poor. Are we together?
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Your grandfather is sleeping for all the hours.
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You too, You are joining him to sleep?
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No, his life is almost finished, yours is starting.
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His own is rest, your own is trouble.
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You see the difference? Let me tell you the truth, when
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you are starting your life, especially if time has gone
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against you, give it the aggression it takes.
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Give it the aggression. Read the books, attend the
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seminars, pray the prayer, wake up in the night, Do your
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research and development. I told you to rest and sleep,
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but don't sleep on the second day.
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Don't sleep on the third day. Jesus rested on the 7th day.
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If you rest on the first day, you will wake up and see.
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Find darkness. You will wake up and find no
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vegetation. There's nothing.
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There is a time to rest, but make sure you do what is worth
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resting. Hallelujah, laziness.
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I bind the spirit of laziness. I cast it out of your life
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forever. Let me speak to everybody, but
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particularly to the brothers. Please do not punish your family
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now or in the future because of laziness.
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Let me start with my people. Koinonia Global.
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Then I extend it to the entire globe.
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One of the indices that measure masculinity is not 6 packs.
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A Husky voice is the capacity to provide.
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And in the name of Jesus, I release grace.
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Over everyone. First I cast out the spirit of
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laziness, then I release grace upon every gentleman here.
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Anyone who earns a living by begging, I divorce you from that
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life Today. You can't have a wife and have
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children, and the only way you live is by begging.
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Bros, I've come again. Oh, can I get 20-30, 10 or you
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have 5 Bros? Sorry.
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Oh my. I just realized that my wife is
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pregnant. We need to go and see the
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doctor. Can I get 50?
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OK, borrow me. You can't live like that.
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It's a very irresponsible way to live.
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You see, This is why. Please don't feel insulted, but
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This is why it's important. Mentorship is very important.
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If nobody rebukes you early, you will keep tolerating this
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nonsense till the day destroys your family.
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Some of you are in the active practice of it, but no one has
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been able to call you in love to say it's a wrong way.
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This is not even about the issue of shame and embarrassment is
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that you need to take responsibility over your life.
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You cannot feed your family of begging.
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It's not a wise way. Hallelujah.
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It's not a wise way to live. It's not a wise way to live at
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all. Laziness, Ensure you are
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productive. There are people who don't have
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any money whatsoever, but you give them a job.
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They say I don't like it. OK, come.
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There's a job. It can give you 80,000 per
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month. It's not much, but it's better
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than that. Well, I, I, I don't really like
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it. I don't like doing any job.
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When somebody will insult me. You are saying I should drive
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and one small girl will be insulting me.
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My brother, you are, you don't, you are from Ground Zero.
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Why don't you start and you're the insulting you meet her
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father is the father that will bless you, not the girl.
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She may be lousy, she may be nasty.
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But while you are driving, as she's insulting you, you are
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saying, Lord, I'm taking this insult as a reproach that came
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from my foundation. Cure it.
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Let my children not have to do the same thing.
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One day the father will call you and say we're looking for a
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young boy. I heard you went to school.
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Yes. What did you study?
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Well, it doesn't matter. Can you do what mean?
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Yes, Sir. You answer quickly.
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Yes, Sir. Do you know everything about
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administration? No Sir, but I'm open to learn.
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A three days training. I'm open to learn.
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And before you know it, you will start growing until you become
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the head of his company, earning millions and billions.
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It started from driving. Can I tell you the truth?
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Once it does not kill, once it does not steal, once it does not
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destroy, and it does not reduce human dignity, it is worth it.
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Let me say that again. Once it does not steal or
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involve stealing, once it does not kill or involve killing,
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once it does not destroy, and once it does not downplay the
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mean human dignity, it is worth it.
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I will have more respect for a graduate who read well, but
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because he did not have anything to do, he he prefers to go to a
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block industry and say you know what I may not be able to do?
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Let me be a secretary for you and sit there and do whatever
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he's doing than the arrogant one who does not have money and will
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keep collecting debt and use his wife's signature to keep
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increasing more debt. Is someone learning now?
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It's amazing how many people who don't have financial resources,
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their pride has punished their families, punish their families.
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You know, I need to go to the village and it's only you that
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knows. I don't have a job.
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And I hear that there's there are three levels of the
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materials to buy. There's the 5000 naira owned,
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there's a 50,000 naira, there's a 500,000, but if you buy the
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500,000, there's a place you will see it.
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You want register, you join people who are managers to
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register for the 5000 naira material and you want sit down
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there and it's OK. All of you who are here, we want
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you to give towards this foundation.
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Now you're under pressure. You you see how people put
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themselves in trouble. You came to church to learn God
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is doing for you an X-ray of your life.
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You enter some of the finest restaurants in Abuja.
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Here you can separate the people sitting there economically.
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You are almost tempted to go and say stand up, what are you doing
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here? I know you, you should not be
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here. It's not condemnation.
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You are not there for anybody's birthday party.
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It's not even maybe you are. You are not rich.
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It's not marriage anniversary or anything.
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What are you doing there? Stand up and go home.
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You leave your wife and your children and you go and you are
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eating your future there. Hallelujah.
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I find it very foolish when I see men gather together,
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especially when they're not doing well economically.
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They cluster themselves, leave their wives, leave their
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children. The child's school fees has not
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been paid. The man says he does not have
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money, yet he's blowing 100,200 thousand among friends and
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they're laughing, talking politics, criticizing people
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they will never see. When he's done, he will go back
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home and harass the wife and harass the children minus you.
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Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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There is dignity in labor no matter how small.
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There is dignity in labor. I know a man who is he died a
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multi millionaire. He started by cleaning offices.
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He was frustrated and he said I may not.
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He didn't have the privilege of going to school, but he said I
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would not let my family go through this.
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He bought rugs, bought mops and started moving from office to
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office. He said he could clean.
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One gave him a chance. He cleaned.
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Not much was given to him but he received it and that was how he
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started growing until he expanded his business.
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True story. I know someone who went to meet
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those who sell cows and goats, he said.
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I don't have the money to buy cows and goats but I know people
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during festive periods they buy. Can I create like a business?
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I will network all the people who I will bring the customers
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for every. Is it 5 goats or 10 goats?
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You will give me one. I don't need money from you and
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honestly, that was how they started.
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Do you know eventually they gave him some some cattle for free
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because they trusted him. Right now, that gentleman, he
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may not have too much but at least you know his family will
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not beg for bread again. Are we together?
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Please, I bind from you and I cast the spirit of laziness.
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I heard the story of a lady in this Abuja, God gave her access
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to very wealthy, you know, a network of very wealthy women.
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You know what she does, She goes to them and she pleads with them
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that if they were done using this, their hair, maybe they're
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the ones they don't like, they should give it to her.
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I think there's a way they wash it and resell it.
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That's how she started her business until somebody gave her
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capital because of trust. Heaven is waiting to back you.
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If you can be serious, can be serious, it can be serious.
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You have a little space in your house, the money you use to live
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a fake life. Buy a car wash machine.
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Start from there. Start from there.
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You will not end up doing that, but it will teach you discipline
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and it will give you a story to tell your children.
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I have profound respect for people who can bend over
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backwards in righteousness, especially for their families.