As we bid goodbye to the old year and welcome in the new, it’s time to reflect on the past and look forward to the future.
The past year has been full of ups and downs, challenges and triumphs. We’ve faced difficult times and overcome them, and we’ve celebrated the joys of life.
But as we turn the page to a new year, it’s important to remember that every day is an opportunity to start anew. Whether we want to set new goals, improve our health, or simply be more present in the moment, the new year offers a chance to make positive changes in our lives.
So let’s embrace the new year with open hearts and minds, and make the most of every day. Happy New Year to all!
But to all my friends all over the world, let’s be accountable to our maker in this new year.
This year is the year of guidance and instructions; it is the year to listen to the Lord’s instructions and allowing his guidance to guide your path in order to live an intentional life that is filled with actualization of divine purpose.
Should all good advices be taken? Quick Answer: No. Before giving expert advice, I ask lots of questions. One half of my digital marketing consultations is questions. This isn’t random. You see, good advices can save your life. Good advices can also screw you up. Just because something worked for me doesn’t mean it would work for you. What worked for you yesterday might not work today.
Context matters. The right question isn’t: Should all good advices be taken? The right question is: How do you approach life? Quick Answer: With awareness. Just like driving. Life is nuanced. There are evergreen life principles, but there are also ever-changing factors. Times change. People change. Situations change. Even you change. You have to be aware of changing topographies and time-sensitivity. Be aware of short windows and temporary loopholes. When confused, ask questions. When the answers confuse you, call experts. Lest you get screwed. Life can be unforgiving. Good intentions isn’t a remedy for ignorance. Accept wisdom when it comes. But process it further with wisdom. A wise advice in the mind of a fool is worse than a foolish advice in the mind of the wise.
BurnUpOrBurnOut Tọ́pẹ́ Fábùsọ́lá The Firebrand CEO
The scenario that played out with a dog will best be used to explain
The fact savers are losers…
Her name is Cutie. I’m just using her as an example…
The other day she was given a treat by offering her dog bone.
She immediately ran to the back and started digging until she had dug deep enough of a hole to bury the bone.
It made me chuckle a little bit. She did it immediately. She did not even think about it. She was preprogrammed to save her bone.
I think people are the same way. We have been taught since birth to save our money. That saving money is the only way to retire or rich maybe.
Anyway, I took a closer look at the burial site of her new bone.
Nature had already begun attacking:
Ants were already there taking what they could off that bone.
As I backed up, I saw birds swooping down and start rummaging through the loose dirt.
As we learned in school, nature itself will start to eat the bone through bacteria, algae, and other decomposing agents.
Cutie may have protected her bone from other dogs, but she did not realize that there were other forces stealing her bone from her. Forces she was either unaware of, never thought about, or just could not see.
Cutie was slowly losing her bone and she did not even know it.
That same replica a thing happening to most people including you in this world. By saving their money, they are losing their money to economic forces.
Talking about unquestionable forces like;
-Monthly SMS alert from your bank
*Frequent CBN directives to from your savings.
*ATM maintenance charges *Transfer charges ( inter / intra )
*Transaction VAT charges
*Newly introduced #50 on each transaction that took place on your account…etc.
Only for you to receive the monthly statement of account to see that instead of having the exact amount saved.
You’ll be surprised that one of the above charges had gone through your account, reducing the initial balance.
How will you feel that instead of having that happening you have the said money put into a business that will grow it and have you with your banker have the share.
Which in the end will put everyone into a win-win game.
And it takes a basic understanding and knowledge of Financial Education
This was explained in one of my previous posts here you can read through or you dm me to know and get all this better
So in my series of emails, you will be receiving now I will be be sharing
Much more about this topic understanding and having a deep knowledge of financial education with you.
That can help you make an informed decision to end this year well on a solid note
And end this year 2021 on a very strong financial status
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Let me teach you warfare. What I’m about to share with you won’t just open your eyes to life and business. It will give you the key to finishing this decade strong. Are you ready? Splendid! You see, this trouble started 3000 years ago. This story was set in the 9th-century B.C.E. A woman and a man locked horns and were going to fight to the death.
On the right is this man. Eliyyah of Y’Israel. A Palestinian prophet of Yahuah. According to his king Ahab, Eliyyah is a troublemaker. Let’s just say the king hates his guts. On the left is the woman. Jezebel of Sidon. A Phoenician princess. Her daddy, Ithobaal, used to be a priest of Astarte. But he wanted the throne, so he killed his king and took over.
Jezebel was just like her daddy.
But here is the question. How did a prophet in Y’Israel and a princess in Sidon meet? Aha, here’s the twist.
Marriage. Jezebel’s daddy was a friend of Eliyyah’s king. You know how these people operate — Ithobaal gave the hand of his daughter in marriage to Ahab.
Now, Jezebel has a Phoenician king as her daddy and a Palestinian king as her baby/zaddy. One problem, though. Jezebel doesn’t worship Yahuah. She has her own god, Baal.
It didn’t even take a minute. Jezebel flew in 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah from her hometown to keep her company in the palace.
Just business, right? Nothing personal.
To further the business, Jezebel decided to create a monopoly. Jezebel ordered the killings of every prophet of Yahuah in Y’israel. And that’s the problem. Eliyyah is a prophet of Yahuah too.
So, let’s tie all these together nicely. Jezebel is killing prophets like Eliyyah. Jezebel’s husband also happens to hate Eliyyah already. To make the matter worse, these two are Eliyyah’s king and queen.
Now, let me ask you a simple question. What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
Eliyyah made one last move. He had to. He set up a challenge against the 850 prophets Jezebel imported. Eliyyah won and deported all the prophets to the afterlife.
It took just one evening.
Only small issue. Jezebel was alive and Eliyyah didn’t ask for her permission. Naturally, all hell was let loose. She swore to kill Eliyyah.
So, Eliyyah dusted his sandals and spoke to his heels. The man ran like he’d never run before.
Pay attention. Eliyyah killed 850 prophets and thought he did a thing. But he did nothing. You see, his archenemy wasn’t the 850 prophets. It was Jezebel.
And now, this brings us back to you.
You remind me of Eliyyah.
Remember January last year? I sent you a simple message.
2020 isn’t a year. It is a decade. To approach this decade and win big, you have to forget your cute yearly goals and shiny little new year resolutions.
What you need for 2020 is a decadian vision. An audacious vision that you can’t achieve in your present form. You have to grow and re-emerge greater to hit the target.
You see, 2020 isn’t a year of anything. It is a decade. The decade of destiny. It isn’t one year. It is ten years rolled into one.
January 1, 2020 — December 31, 2029.
So, I sent the message early. Not too early, because I don’t want it to be washed up with the hundred other Happy New Years. But I sent it out the first week of 2020.
But like Eliyyah, you focused on the 850 prophets. You ate ‘dem pawns up like prawns. You made up your lists and nice-to-dos. You designed those cute little boxes for you to check.
They are your cute checkboxes. Your “new year, new me”.
And you missed the point. Like Eliyyah, you missed the point. Do you want to know what happened to Eliyyah? I’ll tell you. And this is my message for you in 2021.
After Eliyyah had walked non-stop for a day, his body couldn’t continue. So, he gave up, fainted, and waited for death.
How could he face Jezebel and her army alone? And for how long could he run? Killing the 850 prophets clearly didn’t stop Jezebel. If anything, she grew bolder and stronger.
But there was a greater vision. Something Eliyyah couldn’t imagine. In came this angel with premium bread, hot and freshly baked in heaven’s oven.
But you know Eliyyah. He couldn’t see past his one-year goal. He couldn’t see that decade-long vision. So, when he saw the hot loaves, he ate just for the day and went back to sleep.
He ate just enough to survive, hustle, and grind. This is you. It’s 2021 and the goal settings have started again. But where is the decadian vision?
But thank God for Eliyyah. The angel was gracious. So, he woke Eliyyah up and told him, this time more clearly,
“Arise and eat, because the journey before you is too great for you.”
Little did Eliyyah know.
Little did he know that he had 40 days to walk. All he could see was his last supper when there is a glory to enter. Little did he know that he was about to enter his destiny.
Little did he know that he wasn’t the only one left. Little did he know that, when he finally sees the vision, seven thousand would rise with him to fulfil the mission.
Little did he know that in him is the power to anoint Chazael as king. That Chazael would kill those he couldn’t kill.
Little did he know he would appoint Yehu as king. Yehu wouldn’t just kill Jezebel, he would wipe out all Baal worshippers from the land. The people Chazael couldn’t kill, Yehu wiped them out.
But Eliyyah didn’t know any of this. He couldn’t even see the vision. He couldn’t see Elisha, the man he would anoint to take over after him as prophet.
First, Elisha would command twice as much power as Eliyyah. Second, he would kill anyone King Chazael and King Yehu couldn’t kill.
Eliyyah couldn’t see himself being twice as tall and powerful.
Eliyyah couldn’t see all that. He was too faint from the troubles of killing 850 prophets. He put the cart before the horse. The goal before the vision. And he almost lost everything.
So, I hope I won’t have to say this again. I hope this time you eat up. I hope this time you set up a vision worthy of your destiny. And pursue it with everything within you.
Because 2020 is a decade. A game of chess, not checkers. A longer game, a bigger picture. A grander plan, a loftier vision.
But to enter it, you must rise up and eat up.
BurnUpOrBurnOut
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It was my first free Saturday in weeks, With over 70 webinar consulting sessions within the past 2 months as well as other outbound training sessions, I decided my Saturday would be for sleep, premiership catch up and laundry.
While sorting some clothes I had not worn in a while, I had that incling to search the pockets.
Interestingly, the first pocket I dipped my hand into had some cash probably left there for a few weeks. After counting, the total amount came to N10,300.
Hmmmm I said to myself, “but I can’t remember when I left this money here. Interestingly, I can’t still remember. Right then it dawned on me that I had wasted an opportunity to invest loose resources. I asked myself how many people out there had a stash of cash doing nothing for them? .
I soon realised that we could actually make better use of our resources. Some of us have items in our possession that needs to go on rental, cars in our yards that need to go on Uber or Bolt, land that can grow plantain while we save up for the development. .
What resources do you have that has remained unused? We stay foolish when we remain like the guy who hid his investment in the parable of the talent.
It’s another Monday morning…I challenge you to put that abandoned resource to use. Its another Monday morning..
Today we are going to be talking about overcoming seed destroyers.
In 2 Chronicles 22:10, when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
The enemy target your seed to stop your potential harvest.
When Athaliah saw that she has lose her seed she rose to destroy other people’s seed.
Whoever that has lost his/her seed running after your seed will collapse and fall in the name of Jesus because this set of seed destroyers are the worst but they will fail and fail woefully over your seed. (Amen)
Most times many don’t understand the power of their seed and the reason why the enemy is after their seed.
What is a seed?
Your potential is a seed. Your vision is a seed. Your children are seeds. Your money is a seed. The word of God is a seed. Your time is a seed. Your wife is a seed.
Never allow seed destroyers to destroy your seed because they are always after it because they can’t produce their own seed and they can foresee the great harvest in the future.
Satan from his day of fall has been stolen the seeds God deposited in people because he can’t produce his own seed.
The secret to save your seed from the seed destroyers is to hide yourself in the Lord that’s why the only surviving seed during Athaliah’s reign was hid in the house of God for six years 2 Chronicles 22:12.
Prayers Against Seed Destroyers
1. Thanks you lord for the power of your word
2. You seed destroyer, you are liar my seeds are covered by the blood of Jesus
3. No weapon fashioned against my seed shall prosper in Jesus Name
4. Lord give me the power to overcome every evil war waged against my seed because of its potential great harvest.
