MEET THE PROPHET WHO FORESAW OSIBAJO'S AIR MISHAP

Precisely, 4th of November, 2018, during a church service, an Abuja based prophet named humble prophet I.O SAMUEL (JP) of the Shiloh word chapel predicated the air mishap involving the Nigerian vice president, professor yemi osibajo.

In the video, Prophet I.O Samuel urged his congregation to pray for the Vice President of Nigeria. In his word he said, "There is a prayer, I am seeing disintegration in the leadership of Nigeria, pray for osibanjo, pray for the vice president of Nigeria, lord have mercy on him”

Going through his youtube channel, we also noted he had given many other prophesies in the past that came true.

Humble Prophet I.O Samel (JP) is a graduate of WOFBI (WORD OF FAITH BIBLE INSTITUTE) called into full-time ministry in 2010, he has written over 28 books covering various areas of life, he is also the founder of Samaritan foundation, a charity organization, impacting the lives of people.

The seasons of life

Perhaps, one of the most important factors in the race of destiny is our understanding of the place of timing in all we do in life.

What shapes a man’s entire life is his philosophy, mentality and belief system. You can never rise beyond the level of your belief system in life.

The universe was created and ruled by the most creative, wise, dynamic and powerful God. He is orderly; hence he created night and day, summer, spring, autumn and winter to order his plans and purpose for all his creatures on the earth, and to aid his administrative system of the universe.

No matter how hard you pray, plan, strategize and maneuver, if the time hasn’t come, that idea will never come into fruition. This is not an excuse for lackadaisical attitude and laziness.

In one of my private mentorship sessions with one of the most influential and wealthy men in Africa, right inside his office; he told me there was a time they tried to establish their organization’s presence in Ghana, having attained some level of success in Nigeria and Europe.
They had the manpower and financial resources, did all they could, but nothing seems to work. They took a bow, left Ghana that year.

Few years later, with less input and resources, launched out in Ghana. Today! The “Ghana story” is a huge success.
As a believer, don’t let any man talk you out of your faith, if you have done everything within the purview of your faith, and nothing seems to work. Stay in there! Don’t give up!

God is putting everything together so your testimony will be GREAT!

Ecclesiastes 9.11

11 I returned and saw under the sun that—
The race is not to the swift,
Nor the battle to the strong,
Nor bread to the wise,
Nor riches to men of understanding,
Nor favor to men of skill;
But time and chance happen to them all.

If you are saved, you are not under any curse!, No man or spirit on earth can manipulate your destiny without your permission.
You are not under any curse; even if everything around you appears so!
Stay in there, your destiny and vision will blossom at the appointed time. You need faith and patience to walk with God.

Busayo Ogunmade.

The seed of greatness

                                                       
All across the globe, there’s nothing mystical about any economic system. Fundamentally, you are either selling or buying goods or services. Successful organizations understand this principle.

It’s a known fact, that organizations that bring in quality goods or services have the capacity to become great, earn respect and profits.

This principle of “ true greatness” has been around many years. Infact, one of the greatest legends the world has ever recorded, laid this principle; which is applicable in every business, career or ministry.

He said

” For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves” (Luke 22:27 (NKJV).

Meaning, I became great, earn and sustain my respect, honour and followership because, I understand the power of service.

Listen folks, If I can help you to achieve what you want by serving you; You will help me achieve my goals.

Life becomes hard when you don’t have anything or anyone to serve. BUT success is cheap when you locate people’s needs around you, and you serve them whole heartedly. Let’s begin to lead today by serving!

This is your friend and partner in your journey to true greatness in life.

Let’s keep this conversation going on whatsApp +234 8034101694

Busayo Ogunmade,

                                          WHAT IS MONEY ?

Understanding brings outstanding. Watch every champion in any area of life, that fellow has a working understanding of that field. Life is never mystical. There is no mountain anywhere. Every man’s ignorance is his mountain.  Accurate understanding is the starting point of success in any area of human endeavour. My question today is what is money?   If you can clearly understand what money is, your financial liberty has already begun.

It is pertinent to state clearly here that those coins, paper or note we hold in our wallet are “not the real money”. They are just a representation of what we call money. Please follow my argument; it will change your views about money, and when you know what the real money is and where to find it, your financial worries will be a thing of the past, your lost dignity as a result of lack and wants will be restored and you will live a more dignified and glorified life, you can be rest assured. 

Money is powerful; I always tell people around me that after your God, the next thing is money. That does not mean your family is not important but let’s see the kind of family you will have when you can not attend to their basic needs. You will lose all regards and decorum that is accorded a father.

Based on my experience as a business owner,as long as you can pay your staff their salary, you get all the respect and honour as the boss. But when you can’t pay, they will insult you. I have seen where employees hold the MD/CEO  by his shirt and mess him up because of outstanding salary.

Friends, money is good!  Money is not the root of all evil, it is the love (obsession) of money that is the root of all evil, (I Tim 6.10)

money is not the root of all evil, it is the lack of money that is the root of all evil.

If money were truly the root of all evil, God will not promise you financial prosperity as a reward for obedience to his commands.( Isaiah 1.19).

If money were the root of all evil, God will not promise you “blessing, plenty and abundance” as a reward for obeying his words. (Deut  28.11-12).

 If money were truly the root of evil, God will not promise you provision for seeking him and his kingdom (matt 6.31-33).

In fact to show you the primary place of money in family life, Paul the apostle said if a man cannot provide for his family and especially for those in his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel (1Tim 5.8). money is good!

Having said all these about money, so what is money? Money is a measure of value. Money is simply a reward for providing solution.

 Money is a medium of exchange of value. So, with these, you can tell how and where to get money.

Money as a measure of Value

The trade by barter system was not effective due to the problems caused by double coincidence of wants, this gave way to a more efficient  monetary system that makes it possible to measure economic value with given agreed standards. So, it is not the size of what you do that determines the amount of money you get. It is essentially the value that is attached to what you do that determines the size of money you get. Again, it is not the size of what you sell that determines the size of the money you will get; it is the value attached to what you sell that determines the amount of money you will get.

Money as a medium of exchange of value

In my audio CD titled “Becoming a Value adding employee” I said the market place is an objective platform, you are valued based on what you bring to the market. What you bring to the platform is the primary factor that determines your success, other factors are secondary.”

The market place is a place of exchange of value; I give you what I have to get what you have. The world of commerce works around this principle. There is no sentiment there, until you bring value, you will never get anything valuable. 

Money as a reward for providing solution

One of my greatest role models  in the motivation business is Brian Tracy. He said the only radio station that everybody listens to is WI FM- meaning -what Is In It For Me?  Every prize, has a price. Money is a reward for providing solution to given challenges. So the greater the value attached to the solutions you provide the more money you have.

So, how can I get money?

Money is hidden in people, until you can offer goods or services for people you will never get anything valuable from them. Friends and loved ones may give you something even when you offer nothing, but how long will you be at their mercy. How long will you beg for money. The only thing that gives you dignity is the value you bring.

Stop begging! , it not dignifying. Stop begging!!, it’s not the original plan of God for any man, stop begging!!!, it erodes your personality.

Think value. Think about what you do that people can pay for. Think about services you can offer that people will pay for. Think about ideas you can come up with that people will pay for.

Let me give you some secrets

 Secret 1

If you want to make a million naira today, the first questions you should ask yourself are: 

Who are my target audience?

 What do they like?

 What can they pay for?

How much can they afford to pay without stress?

Then what product or service can I sell to them at a profit?

 Once you can answer these questions you are already a millionaire.

The secret is in numbers. Target a niche market with large numbers of people then design a product or service that they can pay for without much stress.

If it costs me 200 naira each to produce a book that I can sell for 400 naira, that means I make 200 naira profit on each sales. My focus now will be what strategy can I put in place to ensure that at least I sell 5,000 copies. This is not hard at all. The rich know this secret and they trade with it. Friends, there is nothing like sudden wealth. Enduring wealth is built overtime. It comes in trickles. Step by step , few thousands here today, few thousands there tomorrow, before the year ends you already have millions sitting in your account. This is not theory, I have been trading with this secret for years , it works. This fact is no respecter of any nation. It will work even in America, Togo, India anywhere!

Secret 2

Again, If you want to make One Million Naira today, how many rich people do you know? Can you get up to 10 relatively rich guys May be in church, mosque, neighbourhood etc. Think Value, people respect people who give value. What can you do for them that they will be willing to pay 100,000 naira each? Think hard, you will locate it. It’s not as hard as you think.

Let me make it easy for you. Nobody stores money just because they like paper or coins.

What people like is the value that those paper and coins bring. They like the comfort and convenience that those paper and coins can give them. They like the ego, self worth, respect, security, warmth, confidence, depth, candor, knowledge, recognition, good looks etc that those papers and coins can give them. It goes on and on. Do you get my drift? So think around all these needs and you will definitely see what they can pay for. Start training your mind to recognize all these areas that can quickly enrich you. You can never rise beyond the level of your knowledge. Your depth determines your height. You wealth building capacity determines the size of your wealth.

so, enlarge your capacity today read good books that will change your destiny.

Secret 3

If you want to make some good money today, find anything that many people spend money on. Then take a sizeable response of people who spend on that thing, ask them why they spend on it. Now if you can add a little more value to that thing without increasing the price, before competition wakes up, you will have made millions. You don’t need to re-invent the wheels, leverage on what you already have on ground. It will save you a whole lot of headache. Let me share this true life story with you. Two leading eateries in Nigeria were in serious competition years ago. In my opinion one was smarter than the other because they don’t spend anything to research on where to locate their facility. What they simply did was to check out anywhere their  competitor opens new branch. They just locate go around that vicinity to set up new branch and it worked. So, find what people spend money on, add little more value on it and roll it out. You will make it.

 Money seed grows on money trees. All you need is the farmers’ mentality. Plant today, locate the idea, and check out the numbers involved, how much will it cost you? How many units do you need to sell to break even, how many units do you need to sell to make profit, if it’s not profitable it’s not a good business.

Friends, the secret revolves round value. Start thinking value; start learning skills, develop your mind to be able to create value. Only value creators enjoy financial dignity. The rule is clear, give me value and I will pay you. Remember, it’s a commercial system, what you bring is what determines what you get. Prayer and fasting can only speed up the process. Breakthrough or Anointing service, fasting and prayer can never be a substitute to the rule; they only act as catalysts which speed up the effect.

Have a great day.

This is Busayo Ogunmade

Busayo Ogunmade speaks, trains and consult for Individuals and organizations – you can reach him on 08034101694.

start that business now

Hello, welcome to my world, the year is fast running out, you must have started taking stocks of  how you drove your resolution at the beginning of the year. Did you hit the mark? Sure you did!!! But incase you did not, its not too late, God who created the whole world in few days is still on the throne. It can not take him 60 days to recreate your destiny. Hang on to him, its not over until you excel.

Back to my discourse on starting and running your own business. The bible says God holds everything by the words of his power, everything, everything including your business. A diligent bible scholar knows the power of knowledge. It is not the effort that counts, effort without knowledge  equals frustration. The labour that gets commensurate reward is labour with knowledge and discretion. Wisdom is the principal thing. That's why the word says in all thy getting  get understanding.
Let me shed more light on the power of applied knowledge called wisdom, in business building. The story culled from Robert Kiyosaki’s book titled cashflow quadrant will help drive home my point..
As you will soon see, it's a story that details the key differences between the life of an employee and the life of a business owner. If you have a burning desire to become wealthy and retire early, don't miss this incredible story… Enjoy it
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The Story Of The Empty Water Supply

There once was a small village, in a town far, far away that had one tiny little problem. They didn't have a water supply. The only time that they could have water was when it rained. To solve this problem, two men from the village volunteered to find a way to provide water for the people.
The first man, John, immediately bought two large buckets and started going back and forth to the lake that was about a mile away. He placed the water into a huge concrete tank that the village had built. Each morning, he would get up early before anyone else so there would be a water supply for everyone. For five days a week, John worked diligently. He was having great success the first few months because the other man, Fred, seemed to have disappeared.
Where was Fred at for all of this time?Well, Fred wrote a business plan to run a steel pipeline from the lake to the village. He hired contractors and found some investors that were willing to pay all of the initial costs. He even hired a president to run the company.
Once everything was set up, Fred charged 75% less for his water than John. He could also provide it 24/7 unlike John who always took the weekends off  to rest.
To make up for this, John immediately dropped his prices to match Fred's. He also bought two more buckets and started carrying four buckets instead of two on each trip to the lake. He then hired his two sons to work weekends so the village would be in constant supply.

John worked very hard all of his life moving buckets of water from the lake to the town. Fred, on the other hand, didn't really need to do anything. Everything had been set up in the beginning. Fred realized that if his village needed a water supply, there were probably many other villages just like it that needed water.

He went out with the same contractors and investors and started building water pipeline to several other villages. Fred became very wealthy. And the more successful he got, the less he had to work. He simply hired more people that would do all of the work for him. All he really had to do was collect his portion of the profits at the end of the month.Not only did Fred build a pipeline to run water to the villages, he built a pipeline that poured money in his bank account.   The end.

What You Can Learn From All Of This
  1.Wisdom in action.
This story shows us the difference between what life is like as being self-employed and what life is like as a business owner.
The most important thing to learn from this story is what happens to each person over time. With John, his days of hauling buckets become more and more difficult. The more successful he got, the more he had to work because the water in the tank started to get low. When John took a few days off or went on vacation, his income stopped. And his customers were unhappy.

Fred, on the other hand, never really had to work once everything was set up and he hired a president to run the corporation. He worked smart in the beginning to allow the financial freedom that he has today.

Fred was taking a risk in the beginning, but it was calculated risk. All he had to do was convince his investors that it would work. Then, all of the financial risk was on them. When all was said and done, Fred got rich, the investors got rich, and the contractors and President made a nice steady income. And the most important thing…
The people in the village were happy!

Ask yourself whether your current work is hauling buckets or building a pipeline. Are you headed toward the life of John and working harder and harder with the more success you have? Or are you living like Fred and becoming more and more financially free with time?

If your dream is to become a business owner then go for it! Don't let the risk bother you because hauling buckets your whole life is far more risky. You need to hunger after accurate knowledge, it is not just good enough to work hard, you must work hard doing the right thing. Go after wisdom, it is your sure bet out of trials, his wisdom will sort you out of any shackles around your life, business and career. Until next month. Take charge.

Busayo Ogunmade
CEO/PUBLISHER.

Busayo Ogunmade is a business development consultant, motivational speaker and businessman/Entrepreneur. He can be reached on 08034101694 or learningplatformcd@yahoo.com