LETTING GO!

When you find yourself in hard
economic situation all you need to do
is to inject the invisible life (the Word
of God) into it and it will create the
surplus you need and it will also
increase productivity. In the story of
the widow and the prophet Elisha in
the bible (2Kings4:2), the prophet
helped the widow by making her
realise that the ‘nothing’ she thought
she had was enough to create surplus
or abundance that will end the lack in
her family. Elisha simply asked her to
bring whatever she has and not
knowing the value she said nothing
because she counted it as such. Then
she said to Elisha that she only had a
jar of oil. Sometimes situations will
ask you, “what you have, and when
times like that arise, do not depart or
say “nothing,” instead look within and
exploit that “little or nothing you think
you have.” Speak life into it and see it
produce increase. The bible says,
“Except a corn of wheat falls to the
ground it abides alone.(John 12:24)” If
you do not allow that which you have
to fall to the ground and die, it cannot
produce for you the increase you so
desire. Let that nothing breed surplus
for you by releasing it to God.
As long as you have something, it is
enough to change that situation. In
the above story, Elisha told the widow
the jar of oil was more than enough.
What you term insignificant is better
off in the hands of God because when
things begin to emerge in your life,
i.e. when surplus begin to come out
of that ‘nothing’, it will only be to the
glory of God.
You are saying “I need more money,
God is saying no; you are saying I
need to depart from where I am, God
is saying no.” instead gather
everything you have together and
then inject life into it. No matter how
insignificant the world sees it today it
does not matter because once you
commit it into God’s hands it will
produce much more than you could
have ever dreamed or imagined.
Once you commit it to God, the next
step is to inject life into it. Stop
looking at your business, your
relationship or your job as nothing
instead get to work, convert it in your
mind into your first property on the
earth. That job is not just a job it is
your first property on the earth.
Most people only see material things
as their property. Turning things into
property means you take it as a
valuable entity by associating value to
it. That way you begin to navigate
them in your mind as something
significant. Once you believe it to be
your property that is the way your
mind will begin to see it. Thus, take
that job, idea or dream that you have
and make it your property.
For instance when you watch a
movie, in the beginning before the
movie starts you see words like “This
is the property of Twentieth Century
Fox” or “This belongs to Sony
Pictures.” In fact they put more value
on the movie than their head office
because it is from the trade of that
movie they are able to buy the
tangible things. That is why they call
things “intellectual property” which
means even the knowledge that they
have, to them its a property or an
entity. That is the first way you must
look at anything your hands finds to
do or aspire to become.
Therefore, the skill that you have, or
talent or job or those big dreams
inside of you, treat it as a property
and not anything intangible. The
same way you look at a house and
say “this is my property” that is the
same way you should see your skill
or job as your first property on the
earth and from then you can begin to
convert it to an estate of surplus
value.
Credit: Poju Oyemade