Success Paradigms 101

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My big brother 'Average'

Below is a little excerpt of the book Success Paradigms 101 that I have just completed publishing and is ready for you to read. Have a look and see what you will enjoy when you purchase a copy. This is a perfect gift for your loved ones that will help them prepare for 2013. This is a timely book you can order a copy from https://www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=303624 or from me at www.success101.co.za and get a signed copy. As a follower of my blogs I am grateful to so many of you that encouraged me to write a book. Well I did with you help now lets read the book.

My Big Brother ‘Average’

I never cease to be amazed at the number of people I meet that have settled for an average life. Average has been made to be the standard. When one succeeds in their village (or a single area of specialisation), they feel like a world champion and cease to pursue bigger dreams, as if there is an intrinsic fear inside that prohibits them from stepping out of the comfort zone of the backyard. The mother throwing the small chick out of the nest of comfort births a bird’s ability to fly. Otherwise, the chick can easily settle for an average life in the nest – fed by the mother, never to discover the purpose of the feathered tools beside his body. When the mother pushes the chick away, it may appear cruel and heartless; however, it marks the beginning of the end to average.

David had older (and bigger) brothers that had settled into an average existence in the nation as members of an average army. The brothers pretended to be brave and strong towards yet they were cowardly and timid. The Bible says the Israeli army was ‘sore afraid’ (1 Sam. 17: 24). David’s brothers had settled into the army format, and they were comfortable with fighting without ambition. On the contrary, you need to make your mark on earth before you log out. We need to feel your existence in this planet. You were born for reason. Conformity is one of humanity’s greatest scourges – we all want to conform, fit in, and be acceptable (instead of profitable). Seemingly, on entering this world, life hands us a uniform printed at the back ‘My big brother is average’. This causes us to imagine only what we have seen and experienced and we settle for a life of conformity.

David’s brothers had settled into the army format and they were comfortable with fighting without ambition

Generally, in families, big brothers set the trend of what the family does. They dictate how far we can go in life. They define the boundaries. In this instance, big brothers are the things that teach us about life and how to handle the challenges that come into our lives. They become the stewards of the current reality that we live in. They tell us what is in the big city and how life in the big city is bad. But that is their experience, that is what they saw and they expect that we will also fit into that mould. I will deal with the big brother syndrome in greater detail later in the book.

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Faith WORKS by LOVE

Hi I really felt the Lord speak strongly to me about this blog so I have allowed it to be longer than my unusual writings I encourage you to read this and share it with anyone you know who is going through some chronic problems. This will help them to walk out into a new place in the Lord.

Faith WORKS by LOVE

Another way to say the above phrase is LOVE WORKS. When agape (the unconditional love of God) love is at work in your life you will win all the time. Faith is the vehicle that helps you get stuff done in Gods realm and love is the fuel. We have a lot of believers that cannot walk in victory because they are not walking in love. The enemy goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour’ and we need to resist him steadfast in the faith. In other words you position in God and in His Word is your guarantee for victory over this guy who is like a roaring lion seeking to devour you. You need to make a decision whether you want to win or not, if the enemy can make you feel justified in your decision to not walk in love he will win over you.

Love covers a multitude of sins and if you chose to walk in love there will be no occasion for offense in your heart and your faith will work and get the desired results. The devil has deceived many people to thinking that church is a place where perfect people are waiting to go to heaven and when they discover that this is not true offense comes in and we fail to walk in love. The truth is church is a place where people with many weaknesses gather to be perfected by the ministry of the Word and of the Holy Spirit. He gave gifts unto men (Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers) to work on the saints and equip them to be more like Christ in their conduct and lifestyle.

So church is not full of hypocrites like many have been made to believe it is made of it is made up of people whose sins have been forgiven and washed in the blood. So spiritually they are perfect and look like Jesus but naturally they are still dealing with the flesh that wants to do its own thing. Even Paul said there is a war in my members after the renewed man I want to do the right thing but the flesh wants to do something contrary. Was Paul a hypocrite? No he was human he was seeking to serve God and be a blessing to the nations just like you. Hebrews 12:12-24 brings out some interesting truth. The Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul begins by advising us to strengthen the weak to make sure the body is strong then in verse 14 he exhorts us to “pursue peace with ALL people” and to live holy lives and warns that without these you will not see the Lord.

Then he warns us again on the state of our hearts towards each other, he says make sure you do not fall short of the grace of God by allowing bitterness to grow in your heart like a root that will blossom into a tree of death. Later in the chapter he tells us that we have come to Mount Zion the mountain of God the church and general assembly of the firstborn. He says these people are registered in heaven (citizens) spirits of just men that have been made perfect. Now this is deep, what he is saying is that your brother or sister that you are holding that grudge against is a just spirit whose name is registered in heaven. God loves him and accepts him as he is though he expects him to renew his mind and live a transformed life.

If God considers him just and has registered him as a citizen of Zion then what right do you have to be bitter against one that is forgiven. That is why we are encouraged to forgive even as God for Christ sake has forgiven you. If you don’t forgive other neither will you be forgiven. It’s not worth holding onto that thing, let it go forgive that person and you will be free. Faith works by love and love covers a multitude of sins. Notice verse 24 he mentions that Christ is the mediator of the new covenants and the blood sprinkled in this covenant totally deals with the sin issue. The blood that speaks of better terms and conditions than the blood of Able seals this covenant.

So lets go back to the beginning and see what that blood spoke about and what happened for the mess we are in to be this way.

          Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

          Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?” And the LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

           

(Genesis 4:1-12 ESV)

Notice that the offence or the problem started in church during offering time, the brothers were giving to the Lord and one made a mistake in his offering and became angry with his brother for pleasing God with his offering. Having been a Pastor for many years I have come to learn that people in church are at different levels of maturity. Some get offended at the way someone looks at them. The way she is looking at me says that I do not have money or they are despising me because I have no car or my hairstyle is old. Why are the rich people always closer to the pastor? How do you know they are rich or are thinking bad about you?

Cain and Able were brothers in every sense of the word but offense came in and destroyed the relationship. Did you notice what God said to Cain when the root of offense was still small. Why are you angry if you do well your offering will be accepted but if you don’t deal with this thing it will destroy you because sin is crouching at the door and its desire is for you and you must rule it. What God is saying here is so powerful, he is telling Cain and all mankind that when offence waits for you at the door it is out to kill you but you can rule it because I gave you that authority in Genesis 1:28 when I blessed you. Its up to you whether sin will overcome you on not, you are its master. Unfortunately He did not take heed to Gods words like many believers today, sin overpowered him and he killed his brother and the blood that was shed cried out for revenge and justice. The result was that Cain was separated and became a fugitive and the ground lost its ability to produce a full harvest, to get the same return on investment man had to work harder.

Do you realize that your failure to walk in love is hindering your progress, you tithing, offering, praying and serving God is not bringing to you the correct return on investment that it should because the root of bitterness like thorns and thistles in your garden choke your crop so it is with your walk with God. Ask yourself is it worth it holding onto this grudge you cost benefit analysis will tell you that you are holding onto something that has diminishing returns so sooner or later like Cain you will want to kill that person in fact holding onto the unforgiveness is equivalent wanting that person dead. That’s why the bible calls you a murderer if you hate your brother (1^st John 3:15)

Let go of the resentment, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, hatred and malice that you are holding against your brother. Seek reconciliation and let God heal you, as much as lieth in you be at peace with all men. Read Romans 12:18-21 it will help you there are instruction on how to deal with this plague. Finally as an encouragement it has been proved that a lot of diseases are sponsored by offense and unforgiveness if you are able to deal with this you will overcome the devil and not be overcome. Listed below is a list of some of the diseases you will overcome.

High blood pressure

Migraine headaches

Stress

Chronic fatigue

Heart attacks

Heart failure and other heart diseases

Arthritis

Muscle and bone diseases

Chronic pain

Cancer

Depression

The list goes on and on. Research shows that unforgiveness results in stress in your body and when your body is in stress it produces a chemical called cortisol, which is a stress hormone behind a lot of the disease and dysfunction in the human body. The human body was never designed to carry unforgiveness we are made in the image and like ness of God and as such we should walk in love as God does. In fact they have also proved that forgiveness will boost your immune system. Over an extended period of time when one harbors bitterness and unforgiveness the production of cortisol will affect your heart and blood vessels thicken and restrict the flow of blood and headaches come in damage to the brain results and when your heart is weak and your brain is stressed all the other diseases come in. medically they have begun what they call forgiveness training where they train someone facing chronic or terminal disease to forgive and let go of their offenders and there has been wonderful results. 

The church has known this all along from Genesis 4 God told Cain when his countenance fell and anger set in that sin was waiting by the door and he had to master it (rule over it) failure to do so opened the door to mans life and disease became a normal part of life. When I was in high school I had four major problems 1. I was depressed and attempted to commit suicide about three times. 2. I was asthmatic and could not do physical sport. 3. I had migraine head aches that would affect my studying. 4. I was not as sharp as I should have been. The solution came when I came into a love relationship with Christ and I was able to forgive my father who at the time when I was in school was filing for divorce. My mother had looked like a victim of a bad marriage’ and she was but I became so angry that my father would do this to my mother that I was unforgiving for years.

The asthma left immediately the migraines disappeared the chronic depression left I have been joyful for 22 years.  My eyes were healed I stopped wearing spectacles and guess what my mind became so creative I have birthed some amazing things in my short lifetime. I have written so many resources that are helping people. I have authored a book and I have five books waiting to be published. This is all because I was able to forgive and move on.

What are you missing out on in life because you will not forgive, if doctors can coach patients to forgive and receive healing how much more the children of God? Look at this excerpt from an article I read by Dr. Bernie Seigel.

“I have collected 57 extremely well documented so-called cancer miracles. At a certain particular moment in time they decided that the anger and the depression were probably not the best way to go, since they had such little time left. And so they went from that to being loving, caring, no longer angry, no longer depressed, and able to talk to the people they loved. These 57 people had the same pattern. They gave up, totally, their anger, and they gave up, totally, their depression, by specifically a decision to do so. And at that point the tumors started to shrink.”

[Yale Medical School] 

The curse that came on Cain was reduced productivity of the land’ what would happen if you decided to walk in love? Your marriage, you job, career, business ministry or body would begin to yield more

A new study from Duke University Medical Center demonstrates that those who forgive others experience lower levels of chronic pain and less associated psychological problems like anger and depression than those who have not forgiven.

Faith for daily living

Prepare for the miracles

Now that you have developed the habit of studying and speaking the Word of God according to the lessons that we have covered you now developing a miracle mindset

That means your mid is set on the miraculous power and ability of God

That means you see opportunity for God to do something miraculous in your life where others are seeing death

John 11 Jesus was going to resurrect Lazarus Thomas said, “let us go and die with him”

He saw death where he should have seen an opportunity for a miracle

Often that is how we respond to difficult circumstances that we face

The children of Israel in the Psalm 78 continued to display their unbelief by their actions and responses to the challenges that they faced (Read Psalm 78 vs. 17-41)

They limited what God could do for them through unbelief

This makes it very clear that unbelief is a serious enemy when it comes to what God can do in your life.

One of the reasons building your faith through reading, studying and meditating on the Word is important is it will build your capacity to receive from God and walk in the fullness of what He has for you

Isaiah 54:1-4 God encourages the barren person to rejoice and to sing aloud

This is an interesting instruction because if you are in a disadvantaged place the last thing you want to do is to sing and rejoice because you feel there is no reason for it

Then he makes an “outrageous” statement you have more children than the woman who is married and has children

Then it gets worse there is an instruction to enlarge your ability to contain what God is about to bring into your life. Enlarge you tent, lengthen your cords strengthen your stakes

Because He realizes that this is a difficult position for this person he goes on to encourage them in verse four by saying do not be afraid you will pot be put to shame or ashamed or disappointed, neither will you be confounded

How well you prepare will determine how well you receive. How much room have you prepared so that God can fill it

Psalm 81:10 how wide open have you opened your mouth to receive from the Lord?

Have you prepared for your miracle?

Wealth creators mindset

One of the reasons why people remain in the realm of average income is that they never exert enough time and energy developing the mindset or paradigms needed for wealth creation, retention and development. I have invested time in studying this with the intent of changing my own personal position financially. What I discovered was so simple yet so profound that I began this blog with the intent of sharing those principles. I had to slow down a little, as I still needed to process some of the things the Lord began to show me.

I do feel a release this year to share more of what God has shared with me. The assignment being that of moving you into the flow of wealth He has prepared for you. The Lord spoke to me recently and said ''There are not enough significant revenue streams flowing into the hand of my people'' this is a series statement because it means there a lot of significant revenue streams out there but few are in the right hands for us to do what needs to be done. We need to change that; we need to make things happen for covenant people so we can get the job done. How are we to do this? You ask. Well thanks for asking.

This blog is about the second thing that God spoke to me. He said ''Wealth generally flows to where there is a concentration of ideas'' this is simple yet profound. Its profound in that if you will research you will find this to be true. Where there is great wealth or any wealth at all there is an idea or some ideas. General electric is a concentration of well-organized ideas, Vodacom is a combination of Voice, Data and communication ideas hence the name Vodacom. Look at any example and you will find this to be true. The return on investment is proportional to the value of the ideas invested in; this has always been the way it works.

Where does this leave you? Well it leaves you at a place where you need to make up your mind and say I will become a centre for the generation and development of wealth creating ideas. I did a blog a little while back called wealth is created in communities. The thesis was just this that if you are going to experience significant increase in your wealth factor you will have to create or be a part of a community that is or can generate wealth. There has to be a coming together of people with a certain mindset. You have to be clear what you want to achieve and be clear about what echoes member will bring in.

Romans 12 vs. 1-3 speaks about how you can transform your life by changing your thinking because as a man thinks in his heart so is he. You need to get into a network of people whose language is different whose attitude towards money is different you will not change you balance by hanging around people that think that all rich people are thieves and robbers. These people seem to be employed to be critics of the rich and wealthy.

This process works to renew your mind and bring you to a new understanding of money and wealth creation. Soon you begin to talk investment, returns, profits and risk on investment and so on. Rich people are so busy doing something they have no time to spend gossiping about the other guy. Even when they go for golf they are talking business, what do you talk when you are playing pool or watching soccer?

Have the right mind when it comes to some of these processes that will help you reposition you for wealth. Begin to work on yourself and develop the ability to create ideas that are shared in a community of people that help develop the idea until it has a significant return on investment.

I was meditating on this the other day and the word that came to mind are these. Successful people become so because of how they see things. You see a mouse run across the floor of your house you scream and call pest control, but Walt Disney saw an idea that is now worth billions of dollar. Ideas can come out of anything anywhere and at any time as long as there is a mind willing to catch them and develop them. No idea comes ready to harvest. All ideas come disguised as something else, your job is to identify them conceptualize them and strategies them and do them and see the wealth flow in.

One of the differences between people that are entrepreneurial by nature and those that are not is that the former have the ability to see the opportunity of an idea while the later cannot. They can take a crazy useless looking idea and ask the question ''what can we do to make this work?'' while their counterparts are quick to discard light bulb moments as useless. Children that are creative and imaginative are often spanked for not being realistic and reasonable when it is unrealistic and unreasonable people that have defined the realities we now enjoy.

Through the process of concerted cultivation we can develop our minds to a place where we are creative. More so for the believer who has the advantage of having a living spirit. You can create channels of wealth that will change your life.

Proverbs 13 vs. 22

Isaiah 44. Vs. 24-28 and 45 vs. 1-5

Well more of this in the next blog. Think on this and let your soul be inspired.