Wealth & Business

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Ninety percent of the wars fought in our world today are motivated by the control of the wealth of the world. Societies are usually formed around or close to available resources, but not many people are usually ignorant of these resources. The few people that discover them explore them to their advantage and to the exploitation of those who do not know. Two percent of the population of the world today controls ninety-eight percent of its resources, while the remaining ninety-eight percent of the population struggles to survive on the remaining two percent of the resources.

Economists tell us that human needs are unlimited but the resources are limited. This is not so, because the resources of the earth are hidden in every human need you can think or imagine. Whatever inventions or business empires you can see today were all made to meet a need. Wherever there is a need, there is a resource to meet it and wherever there is a resources, the need for it will arise.

According t the parable of the talent in the Bible, the master of certain servants gave them resources in proportion to their abilities, but only two out of three were found worthy of true riches (Matthew 25:14-30). In our days, the number is worse than the opposite of what was obtained then. This is due to ignorance, greed and laziness.

If you are ignorant of your true identity, you will be ignorant of your true ability, talent or resources. An ignorant man will always see a need as a problem rather than an opportunity to explore this God given resources. The journey to becoming a trustee of true riches begins with the discovery of your true identity – who you are and what you have.

We need divine wisdom, not greed to locate the needs in our society and how we can meet them with our God given abilities. In 1 Kings 3:5, God gave King Solomon a blank cheque to ask for whatever he wanted. He asked for wisdom and that brought him great riches. When you embrace wisdom, you will conduct your affairs in such a way that heaven will have no choice but to rain blessings on you.

For any venture or business to survive, it must be centred on a need. A business man or woman is one who has located a need in any given society. Having located the need, he puts his resources or talent together to meet that need for the benefit of the people, while at the same time making a profit out of it. If your profit dos not impact love, it is greed and God does not sustain a system of greed.

No one can experience true riches if he does not purge himself of greed and covetousness. If greed is the motivation for what you do, it will eventually take over your life, because “greed has no other assignment than to take the life of its owner”. Anything built on greed will eventually self-destruct and collapse.

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TRUSTEES OF TRUE RICHES

Faithfulness is a vital virtue in keeping true riches. Faithfulness is required to grow and maintain whatever is required to grow and maintain whatever is entrusted to us, whether big or small. God will not entrust true riches to you if you are not faithful in little. Every money or profit we make in life is in it: one, a part that must be given to God in honour of His provision and power to make wealth (tithe); two, a part to be invested or sown back into the lives of other people who do not have; and three, a part for your consumption (bread). The way you spend money is an indicator of your faithfulness and values in life.

We must change the way we do business, ministry or live out our lives to accommodate other people who can help us. Find partners and good people who can stand with you. Commanding true riches is not a solo project. The planet is not structured for us to make it on our own. God may give vision to one but the power of execution to another.

True riches are promises from God if we seek Him with the whole of our hearts. Matthew 6:32 ways ‘seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and every other thing will be added to you’. The blessing of true riches is added to us when we find the kingdom and His righteousness. It is God’s good pleasure to bless us but He expects our hearts to be focused on Him. The true reason why we should want prosperity, riches and favour should be for god’s kingdom. When we are in total alignment with Him, we will attract blessing and have a lasting heritage.

There is no human being without ability or God given resources. God has given talent to every human being according to their ability. When the spirit dimension comes upon our natural ability, we have the supernatural grace to experience increase and profit. There are nine categories of Christian enterprise and nine gifts of the Spirit. These represent what each individual has to meet the needs in the society. An understanding of who we are will enable us to know what we have to trade. The various parts of the human body represent different types of individuals’ God given abilities to meet the needs in the society. These are:

Hands

The hand types of abilities are creative people who use their hands to create unusual things e.g. sculptors, designers, writers, tennis players etc.

Foot

The foot types are outdoor people, always on the move. These are suppliers and contractors, footballers etc.

Ear

The ear types are spectators and very attentive people who pick up the vibrations of God in form of news and all kind of information. They are mostly investors and brokers who deal in stocks and bonds. They are prophetic in their hearings.

Eye

The eye types are visionaries and dreamers who make something out of nothing. They see potential in junks and spot things other don’t see.

Nose

The nose is the bridge that connects the eye to the mouth. So also are these types of people. They are wheeler dealers, who smell deals afar off and love the hunt. They can navigate well and are people oriented.

Throat

These types of people do not just mutter, they sing very sonorously. They are singers who can bring down the presence of God and feed your soul through their voices.

Mouth

These are highly persuasive people with the ability to carry people along and convince them. They are orators and motivational speakers, salesmen, newscasters, politicians etc.

Heart

The heart types are very passionate people. These are carers, nurses, compassionate workers etc.

Head

These are co-ordinators with the ability to search. They are policy formulators who conceive concepts. They make good chief executive officers, as they think things through.

Many of these types can be combined abilities in a person as long as they are naturally given to you by God. His blessing will come upon your natural ability. Pursue God and He will entrust you with silver and gold to meet your needs. This is the key to wealth and true RICHES. Our aim however, should be to save human lives and souls. All that God has given to us if for this purpose. When we do this, we will become Trustees of His riches, and we will spend from Jehovah’s Pocket. God bless you richly.

This article written by Dr Tunde Bakare was published in Harmony magazine, Winter 2009. Find out more about Dr Bakare’s ministry at www.latterrainassembly.org