NEWS
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
SUMMARY ATTEMPT | RULING YOUR WORLD | DAVID O. OYEDEPO | CHAPTER 8
Monday, October 14, 2019
SUMMARY ATTEMPT | RULING YOUR WORLD | DAVID O. OYEDEPO | CHAPTER 7
Sunday, October 13, 2019
SUMMARY ATTEMPT | RULING YOUR WORLD | DAVID O. OYEDEPO | CHAPTER 6
Saturday, October 12, 2019
SUMMARY ATTEMPT | RULING YOUR WORLD | DAVID O. OYEDEPO | CHAPTER 5
Friday, October 11, 2019
SUMMARY ATTEMPT | RULING YOUR WORLD | DAVID O. OYEDEPO | CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER FOUR
THE POWER OF PREPARATION
No matter what your goal is, whatever your purpose in life may be will require your personal preparation to ensure a speedy actualization.
Outstanding performance in the future is a product of qualitative preparation today.
Preparation entails planning, programming, and seeking for necessary helps.
The quality of one's preparation determines the quality of his result in any examination.
Safety is not guaranteed in the air without adequate and detailed checks on the ground.
Planning
Planning can be defined as a step-by-step design towards the accomplishment of a given task.
Praying without planning is playing without knowing. And planning without programming is living in the woods, while programming without pursuit is dining with the dead.
WHAT PLANNING ENTAILS
The planning process begins with fact finding and intelligible arrangement of such facts is what is called planning. We can only plan effectively with facts. That is, identifying the essential issues involved in achieving a given task, and strategically placing such facts in the most appropriate place to achieve the desired goal.
The time you spend in planning is not wasted time; it is time invested, because the quality of your planning determines the speed at which you accomplish your goal.
PROGRAMMING
Programming dictates the steps. Programming schedules the actions; it is essentially about timing the required action towards accomplishing a set goal.
SEEKING FOR NECESSARY HELPS
First looking out for resource materials where relevant facts can be gathered.
Secondly, seeking help from above through prayers.
This is the position: we plan with facts, program with sense, and pray with faith.
God never plans for anyone; it is every individual's responsibility to plan.
Planning is a non transferable responsibility. There is no substitute for it.
Preparation must be comprehensive before you can obtain outstanding results.
For every set objective, no matter how divinely inspired, preparation is a non-negotiable factor, if it must be actualized.
FINANCIAL PREPARATION
There is a place for financial planning in the pursuit of any purpose. Everyone needs to be financially literate for a successful adventure in life. You will always have something to do with money as long as you're living here on earth.
Therefore, no matter how spiritual you are, to pretend that money is not essential is to make a mockery of destiny.
Man's dignity naturally demands financial resources.
One unique truth about the Bible is that there is no management principle from Harvard, Yale or anywhere else under heaven that compares with the principles contained in it.
Applied gospel is the world's last hope.
WHAT IS MONEY?
Money can be simply defined as a medium of exchange for goods and services. There is nothing mystical about money It is neither a product of chance or luck; it is simply the end product of goods and services.
Cheap money erodes human dignity, whereas money properly earned enhances his value. There is no shortcut: money is either earned or should not be expected.
The first thing to do in your financial preparation is to seek to be adequately financially informed for the pursuit of your goal.
If you can think enough what you have is enough to set out with.
You do not need money as much as you require financial skills.
I am talking about being in touch with the investment opportunities around you and how to invest wisely.
It is important not only to build resources for the pursuit of your purpose, but to also develop adequate financial management skill of the same. God will not put in your hand more than you are capable of effectively managing.
You need to be constantly aware of your economic environment in order to become financially successful.
PONDER POINT
"Those who think on paper think better."
Dr. David Oyedepo
Thursday, October 10, 2019
SUMMARY ATTEMPT | RULING YOUR WORLD | DAVID O. OYEDEPO | CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER THREE
THE POWER OF PURPOSE
You did not just happen; you were created. You are, therefore, not a child of circumstances.
Life without a bearing is a burden.
Men of purpose are known to be men of impact.
MANUFACTURED BY GOD
Many people are frustrated because they have not cared to discover what they were designed for.
A discovery of what you are created to do is called purpose. Doing what you are created to do is what makes you become what you are created to be.
Finding what you are created to do and doing it will turn you into a man and woman of value.
Purpose is what gives meaning to life. You are only guaranteed to get the best of results doing what you are created to do.
If everywhere is your destination, you are sure to get nowhere. Life is a journey, and only those who have a definite destination record progress. Only those going somewhere ever get anywhere. Anyone going everywhere gets nowhere, for there is no such destination as "everywhere".
DISPOSITION TO SERVE
It is not what you want to be that matters, but what you are created to do, the reason for your existence, that matters most.
Purpose does not target position, but is designed essentially for contribution. It is not designed for status, but for service. That is why only service oriented dreams ever see the light of day.
Discovery of purpose is essentially a discovery of your area of service.
Service is the only way to actualize your purpose and fulfill your destiny.
True greatness is a product of genuine service. It is your degree of commitment to service that determines your ultimate height in the race of life. The power of purpose is manifested in service.
Visionary Encounters
A heavenly vision can also be delivered through prayers of enquiry.
God is committed to leading us in the way to go and teaching us the way to profit.
Natural Endowments
A discovery of such deposits in most cases is a pointer to the task you are created to undertake in life.
Your passion can be defined as things that get you emotionally caught up in your actions and reactions to certain things or issues.
You are either running with a vision, going on a mission or burning with a passion.
Living for self makes a slave, but living for others makes a leader.
Spiritual Bearing
Most Christians crash when they allow a little success to disconnect them from God.
When you stop seeking God, you start sinking in the sea of life. Remember, it is His purpose you are running with, not yours and you sure must require His backing.
Visionary Bearing
Not every good idea is God's idea.
If you keep pace with God, you won't lose your peace.
Every child of God who does not desire mishaps on the journey of life must always crave to be led by the Lord.
Role-Model Bearing
Find out those who have gone ahead of you in the area of your discovered purpose, and link up with them, particularly with the secrets that made them.
It takes having role models to play your role well.
DARE TO DREAM
Great men always live in the reality of their future ever before they arrive there!
If you cannot dream it, you may never dare it, and if you will not dare it, you cannot damn it. A dream in this context is defined as the mental picture of the future.
It is your mental picture that defines your actual future, for as a man of thinks in his heart so is he. Show me a dreamer indeed, and I will show you another leader in the making. Every great dreamer ends of a world changer.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
SUMMARY ATTEMPT | RULING YOUR WORLD | DAVID O. OYEDEPO | CHAPTER 2
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
SUMMARY ATTEMPT | RULING YOUR WORLD | DAVID O. OYEDEPO | CHAPTER 1
Monday, October 7, 2019
SUMMARY ATTEMPT | RULING YOUR WORLD | DAVID O. OYEDEPO | INTRODUCTION
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
BE STILL | OCTOBER 2019
13 When Elijah heard the voice, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, What are you doing here, Elijah?
He...started several businesses...with drug addicts and prostitutes...he would...ask them bluntly “how bad are you?”...In most cases, none of them had done as much drugs, porn, slept with or killed as many people as he had. On hearing his story, most of them said “ha? Me I be saint be that o (wow, I must be a saint then)”...One day, he was recounting how he had personally killed about nine people before it dawned on him that the number wasn’t accurate...“I think I must be a god because...people in my vicinity are either killed just before I arrive or just after I left”... Read more
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All scripture references above were taken from the Amplified Classic Version of the Bible.
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