The Good Series, 8

His Offer


When God made Adam, he gave him charge over all he created on earth. He can drink and eat whatever he likes but the fruit of one certain tree he must not touch, talk less of eating.

In Genesis chapter 3, Adam disobeyed that instruction – he not only touched, he ate that fruit.

That disobedience altered the original nature of man completely, till this day – it brought the ‘’sin nature’’ upon man, and this sin nature altered man’s right standing before God. (Man was no longer blameless before God)

This is how the Holy Spirit through the tent maker puts it in Romans 5:19a (TL ‘’Adam caused many to be sinners because he disobeyed God’’…

Now you need to understand this very clearly, - it is/was not your sin that made you a sinner, Adam’s disobedience did! That verse said …he caused many to be sinners because he disobeyed…

Another word for ‘’caused’’ is ‘’triggered’’, so Adam triggered the sin nature in man. (Very unfortunate)

Now get this, Adam’s sin was put on you. You inherited what was not your own. And now you sin because sinners sin. It is not your act that made you a sinner; the sin nature that Adam put on you makes you a sinner.

In Leviticus chapter 16 God devised a strategy to take care of man’s sin – the goat strategy

In verse 20-22 it said.

20’’When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place and the Tabernacle and the altar, he must present the live goat. 21He will lay both of his hands on the goat’s head and confess over it all the wickedness, rebellion, and sins of the people of Israel. In this way, he will transfer the people’s sins to the head of the goat. Then a man specially chosen for the task will drive the goat into the wilderness. 22As the goat goes into the wilderness, it will carry all the people’s sins upon itself into a desolate land’’. (NLT)

This was done once a year, but the problem with this strategy, was that it was not sustainable and most importantly it dealt only with the sin man was committing but NOT the main issue – the ‘’sin nature’’ that was put on man by Adam.

Then God came up with a better and sustainable strategy to deal with the root problem (the sin nature) – the Christ strategy

God sent Jesus Christ and he poured out his blood on the cross of Calvary and offered to man the gift to stand right before God again by dealing with the sin nature

Romans 5:19b …and Christ caused many to be made acceptable to God because he obeyed.

The tent maker declared in Romans 6:6 ‘’we know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin’’. (NLT)

An offer does not become yours until you accept it. This offer ‘’to be made acceptable to God’’ is not automatic, it is for ONLY those that will accept it.

The sin that will take a person to hell is the sin of rejecting God’s offer

God Bless you.

The richest man in Africa, Alhaji Aliko Dangote was asked during an interview;

"What is your advice for young people Sir?"

His response: ‘’Start any business that puts 1naira into your account daily. A lay man would say, 1naira is too small, but a wise man would think of the possibility of multiplying that 1Naira by 1Million customers daily’’

Banks charge 5naira per sms alert, now multiply 5naira by 5million customers daily. Abeg do the math.

Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, did a ‘’collabo’’ on a book they titled, ‘’Why We Want You To Be Rich’’. (Can you believe that?)

They said something that is ‘’mindset changing’’ in that book – ‘’we must not deny ourselves the good things of this life and instead of restricting ourselves to our means, why don’t we change our thinking and rather expand our means’’ – what a statement.

If you are a salary earner with good pay or you have a business that is doing very well and you are satisfied with your income or you generally don’t need or care about another source of income.

Please I suggest you stop here and don’t waste your time reading this long, typo filled post.

But if you don’t have a job at all or a good one or any sustainable source of income or maybe you have a good job or you have a good business, but care for another source of income, no matter how small that income maybe and you are ready and willing to grow this new income and maybe turn it into a business, then I suggest you stick around.

So if you want to be able to do what Trump and Kiyosaki suggested – expand your means – then read on.

Now please get this, what I want to talk about is NOT a ‘’get rich quick’’ scheme, where you do nothing and money will be pouring into your bank account, no it is not.

Network marketing is good but that is still NOT what I want to talk about.

I want to talk about some Unconventional income or extra income machines you can start immediately and unconventional ways of doing certain businesses that will generate income and extra income for you.

Some of them will cost you little or no money to launch them.

And if you are willing to put in the SMART work involved, these can become established businesses, that will employ people and enable you ‘’enjoy the good things of this life’’.

Without having to wake up by 4:30am, rush out of the house by 5:30 to a job you are not so much in love with and then get back home by 11pm exhausted, and no time for your family, only for the cycle to continue the next morning.

You actually don’t have any time to live your life, and do you want to spend the rest of your life that way?

Here’s the thing. Research says the average multi-millionaire has seven different sources of income.

If you are a multi-millionaire you will not only live your life, you will enjoy it abundantly. You will have more than enough for yourself and your family and enough to give others.

But the things, am about to say will not make you a multi-millionaire over night

When you have one source of income – for instance, a single job – you are falling into a trap. You will be one of the masses instead of one of the people who will survive.
So you constantly have to be on the lookout for other sources of income.

Don't worry, that’s why we are here

Remember - the average rich person has seven sources of income.

While the average poor person has one source of income

The path from one income to seven or ten sources of income isn’t always easy...
But it’s also not always as hard as you might think.

The problem is: Most of us were trained to think money only comes from getting a job.

If you think every income stream has to pay you as much as your job, then you’ll never build seven income streams.

And having multiple income streams gives you more than just money; it protects you against the uncertainties of a job and economic instability.

For instance

If you have 100 people paying you N1000 every month for value you offer them, then you will have N100, 000 a month income.

But if one of those people “fires” you then you still have a N99, 000 income.

On the other hand, if you have just a job paying you N150, 000 or more monthly, and then if that one person (owner of the job) fires you then you won’t have any income at all.

Do you get the drift?

I have been on both sides of the table – working only for a salary – and being paid by people I offer value to. So I know exactly what am talking about.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money. Money gets depleted until you go broke. Financial wealth is a side effect of having and implementing good ideas.

Most often people say I need so much money before I can start something. You don’t need money per say.

What you actually need to start is an idea, any idea that when you implement it will add value to people; I can assure you that they will give you their money in exchange for that value.

And there are many such ideas; you can start with little or no cash.

The belief that you need money to make money makes you a victim and gives you no way out.

You only need a good idea and then pursue it aggressively, then the idea will yield money and the money will make more money for you.

“There are fast ideas and slow ideas, just as there are fast trains and slow trains. When it comes to money, most people are on the slow train looking out the window watching the fast train pass them by. If you want to become rich quickly, your plan must include fast ideas.” – Robert Kiyosaki

By now am sure it must have dawned on you that all you need to start earning that income or extra income is just an IDEA.

I have taken time, effort and considerable research to develop 12 good ideas, which will make you an income or extra income, depending on where you are now.

I called them unconventional extra income machines

Some of these ideas are very unconventional and things you may never have thought of before.

Some are things you may know or have come across, but never in the way, I presented them.

Yes these ideas are easy to start and you can launch one or two even if you are afraid or have not started anything before.

And the good part, most of them cost little or nothing to start

I know what you are thinking… ‘’another useless list of home business ideas’’ No, they are not.

Neither is it another ‘’100+ list of business ideas’’

Am sure you have come across tons of websites listing such business ideas like:
Blogging
Real estate agency
Car washing
Carpet washing
Etc.

Yes these ideas are good but they are not the kind of things am talking about

Most of the ideas I have documented are unconventional in nature and application

One of such ideas is what I call ‘’IDEAS MACHINE’’ imagine you becoming a machine that churns out ideas at will.

Ideas are the real money magnets, money run after good ideas.

If you can have the discipline (which I know you can) to do the things required and launch this one idea, money won’t be an issue again; it will just become what it is – a tool.

And most important, I did not just make a list of 13 ideas, like those websites you know do, I included all the details you will need to make any of it a success

Details like what problem(s) the ideas will solve or the solution they will provide and the step-by-step details of how to launch them and all that is needed or required to start. You get the whole works.

I have to tell you something at this point. Am not perfect yet, am still on the journey; I, still make some of the mistakes you make.

I send emails to my clients with glaring typos, sometimes my presentations are off, and my blogs are riddled with so many spelling mistakes. I goof at times, I have regrets too, and I have done things that were unsuccessful.

But the thing is that I always and daily strive to add value to myself and also look out for ways to add value to others.

The final step - the step that will make all this worthwhile - is for you to agree to my terms then get my experience and research.

If you guarantee a one-time N987 (just nine hundred and eighty seven naira only (less than what some spend on a single lunch)) or $2 (two dollars) payment to me as a return for the time and effort I put into mapping all this out, then I will hand you a new source(s) of income on a silver platter...

I’m not always right. I don’t pretend to be.

I can’t guarantee you will make money from my ideas; it largely depends on you, if you will take action. But I do my best.

I’m just sharing some of the things that I have done and researched. You only need to take action.

Like wise men say – ‘’one good action is better than a thousand good intentions’’

The choice is yours…

Like I said the money is just in return for the time and effort I put in, if I have to sell it, I will definitely ask for more than that.

When you start making money from any of the idea(s) please I will love to hear your testimony.

If you need me to send you the book, contact me here: https://letsrethinkbiz.com/contact/

Or

Send me an SMS here: 08032015166
With your email address and full names.

The Good Series, 7

This Interview

I saw this and it REALLY caught my attention and I have been thinking about it. Please read and think about it too.

An interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren

This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren, 'Purpose Driven Life' author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California.

People ask me, what is the purpose of life?

And I respond: In a nutshell,

Life is preparation for eternity.

We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal.

God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.

Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ-likeness.

This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer. I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth.

I don't believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.

No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.

You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems.

If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, "which is my problem, my issues, my pain." But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.

We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her. It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.

You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.

Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before.

I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.

So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence.

He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.

First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.

Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.

Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.

Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.

We need to ask ourselves:

Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better.

God didn't put me on earth just to fulfil a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.

In the happy moments, PRAISE GOD. In the difficult moments, SEEK GOD. In the quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. In the painful moments, TRUST GOD. And, in every moment, THANK GOD.

The Good Series, 6

The Church

The church is the body of Christ (the body of believers) and not the physical structure where Christians go to worship. Some have said that within the body of Christ there are differences in teachings, thereby bringing about controversies in certain subjects.

Let me make it clear, the gospel of Christ we received is one and only one – the gospel of life. There is no problem or controversy in or with the gospel. I will tell you where the problem is – the problem is with a few of the preachers and teachers of the gospel.

These few have agenda different from Ephesians 4:11-13. Their agenda are personal and some self-servicing, so what do they do? They twist and bend the gospel to fit into their agenda. But you can know them, just place their teachings side-by-side with what the bible says and you will see discrepancies and at times complete fallacy.

The church is not just for perfect people, the reason we have preachers and teachers of the gospel is - ‘’for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ’’ Ephesians 4:12 (KJV).

When we twist the gospel to further our personal agenda - are we taking the saints through the path of perfection, and edifying of the body of Christ? – NO

When we start to import the values of the world into the church - are we taking the saints through the path of perfection, and edifying of the body of Christ? – NO

When we see or know of, sexual immorality in the church and we don’t address it - are we taking the saints through the path of perfection, and edifying of the body of Christ? – NO

When we see people that we know that their source of income is not very clear or questionable and we don’t call them aside to inquire, just because they are bringing money to the church - are we taking the saints through the path of perfection, and edifying of the body of Christ? – NO

When we see all sorts of anomalies in the church and we close our eyes to them or pretend that they are not there – are we taking the saints through the path of perfection, and edifying of the body of Christ? – NO

And for every one that is a member of the church, if you have been in the church for a while and your life is not challenging people around you to become better, then you are wasting you attendance to church. For those living in disobedience to God’s word to be comfort around you is an anomaly

Finally my brethren, the purpose of the church is to change us and get us ready for the coming of the Master, what is the use of being in church and then end up in hell with those that did not go to church at all?

If you are touched by this series, I would love to hear from you. Just drop me a comment.

God Bless You

The Good Series, 5

Grace

Several people have given grace several definition, the popular one being that ‘’grace is un-merited favour’’. I tend to agree with it somehow, but that definition does not capture completely what grace is. Grace itself and not the word is beyond human comprehension

When someone gets employed in a company and after six months gets double promotion, while those that have been there for years are still in one place – that is Grace

When a hardened armed robber that has no regard for God talk less of man, get invited to a child dedication ceremony in a church and an altar call is made and somehow not out of his own will, he finds himself in front shading tears and giving his life to Christ - that is Grace

In a family of nine children, eight has PhD and the remaining one refused to go to school, not even secondary school. The rest saw him as useless, a waste that will amount to nothing in life. Suddenly out of the blues he becomes the star, the financial pillar of the family. If a family meeting is called and this illiterate is late in coming all the PhD holders have to wait till he comes and if he does not show up that meeting has to be rescheduled and if any decision is taken in his absence, when he shows up that decision will either be changed or reviewed – that is Grace.

When a man is living in serious and un-tamed disobedience to God and his word but still anything that man touches turns into gold – that is Grace

When an armed rubber goes for operation every other night and returns home successfully – that is Grace

… and there is more to the list

But there is a ‘’but’’ in the matter – grace can expire, yes it can dry up. Many people are enjoying grace without knowing that it has a limit. Ezra 9:8 “But now we have been given a brief moment of grace, for the Lord our God has allowed a few of us to survive as a remnant. He has given us security in this holy place. Our God has brightened our eyes and granted us some relief from our slavery. (NLT) you can read it from verse 6

What makes grace to expire?

Taking God for granted can cause grace to dry up

Living in disobedience to God’s word can cause grace to dry up

Every act of disobedience to God or evil reduces the grace upon a man. Romans 6:1. ‘’What shall we say [to all this]? Are we to remain in sin in order that God’s grace (favor and mercy) may multiply and overflow? (AMPC)

What happens when grace expires?

When grace expires life becomes unbearable

When grace expires what used to work stops working

When grace expires, that armed robber that grace has been preserving his life to see if he will repent, will either get caught or killed

When grace expires life becomes miserable

What do you do when grace expires?

Wake up from your slumber, go back to God, and surrender your life to him and pray for him to restore back your grace. Then start living in obedience to his word

If you are touched by this series, I would love to hear from you. Just drop me a comment.

God Bless You