WAR!
What is in your hands?
Wow! January was a year in itself. I will describe it as a highway with clusters of unexpected speed bumps. I hope you traveled fast when it was clear and paused when it was needed?
It is indeed a unique year and regardless of how you feel it is important to align with the season and what God is doing.
I will start be delivering an instruction. With the way January went, what plans, changes and decisions do you wish you made in 2024 ahead of 2025? Instead of crying over spill milk, think of February as your December, make those plans and take those steps.
The recent recurring tragedies in the airways points to a spiritual contention that is ongoing. We all want to be God's favorite, we pray to be singled out and experience a breakthrough while there is famine in the land.
Don't get me wrong, God still specializes in surprises and he is also a God of times and seasons. You are not the only one trusting him for a big break and that season of breakthrough is closer for us than you think.
For some of us it is here already and I pray that your eyes are open to see the key that is needed to trigger that season, I pray for discernment to see and remove the disguised problem packaged as a season of breakthrough.
Soon! In a way you least expect or imagine.
I urge you to embrace the peace of the Holy Ghost and bask in Joy even when all odds are against you.
Last month there were arguments, misconceptions and strange doctrines on prosperity trending on social media. While I am yet to send that special letter here's what I can share;
1. 2025 is a year for wealth transfer
2. 2025 is not a year to play small
3. 2025 is not a year that will favour poor people
I am certain that you must have heard at least one of these three admonitions by now. Last year, I spoke about previous systems failing and I also experienced this in January despite restructuring. In February God wants us to war with the weapons he has given us. He is showing us to how to build wealth.
Matthew 25:14-30 tells a popular story of the talents using figurative expressions. In this letter I will break it down to show you somethings you might have skipped.
Matthew 25:15 shows that he gave the 3 servants according to their ability. These means that the man that received 5bags of Gold and the man that received 2bags of charcoal and the man that received 1 log of wood got what they could handle, the master had some form of trust in the abilities of his servants so he gave them goods according to their ability and traveled.
In personal development , we speak about the Johari window,
The you that you know and others do not know
The you that you know and others know
The you that others know and you don't know
The you that others don't know and neither do you.
From the master's perspective, we need to operate from the window of what he knows about us.
Lord, help me to see myself as you see me.
Verse 16 and 17 show us something significant that we ignore. The man with 5 bags of gold traded and got 5 extra bags making it a total of 10bags of gold, the man with 2 bags of charcoal traded and had 2 extra bags of charcoal, earning a total of 4 bags.
Multiplication is not enough, but doubling is the least form of success expected from us in our kingdom. If I have 5 bags of gold and I trade with it to get 3 extra bags of gold making a total of 8bags of gold, I have failed.
You: Ahh!
Matthew 25:16&17 Yes!
How many bags were you given?
How many bags are you trading with?
Is the return of investment on one of the bags that you are trading with equivalent to buy another bag?
Let me paint another scenarios for you, if I have crude oil and I trade it for Diesel, I am not getting value or monetary equivalent from the trade.
Am I trading? Yes
Am I doubling the value of the good or talent? No
Will I be wealthy? No
SELAH!
If you have read "The Richest Man in Babylon" the principles in that book are literally summarized in this story and broken down in this letter.
Verse 18, shows us that the person given a log of wood went and buried it.
In Verse 19, the master was back and it was time to give report.
Verse 21 and 23 shows that the master had the same reply to the servants that doubled his 5 bags of gold and the other that doubled his 2bags of charcoal. He did not see the one with 5 as more successful than the one with 2 they are equal in his eyes as long as they can invest and double the goods.
Verse 24-27 shows the conversations between the master and the servant with a bag of charcoal.
Sadly, verse 26 and 27 shows the behavior of many believers today. We are planted in systems that are not working yet instead of multiplying wealth we say
"my master is a wicked man, the leaders are wicked people reaping where they have not sown, gathering loans and aid from where they have not invested, why should I multiply wealth under such a ruler?" The end of such person can be seen in Verse 30. Selah!
Verse 29 shows that the bag of charcoal was given to the the one with 5 bags of gold. As established in Verse 21 and 23, either the person with 2 bags of charcoal or the person with 5 bags of gold quality to receive the 1 log of wood because they have doubled their goods.
It is important to note that the strategy for multiplication of product A may be different from the strategy of multiplication of product B. I have learnt that the reward for hard work is more work not rusted systems. There is wisdom to reinvest, pivot, start, execute and breakthrough a plateau phase without burning out.
I will leave you with another assignment, ask God to show you the 10 ways to use Wisdom in 2025.
In 2025, Execution is the new obedience.
What are those subtle opportunities knocking on the door that you are ignoring?
What Good have you buried, how can you dig it out, revamp it and use it to generate interest in the time left before the master comes?
What goods are you trading with but in a shabby way?
What is that thing (investment) that failed before that you need to try again.
"It did not work in 2024, it will work in 2025".
2025 is such a fertile ground!
It is a year where those that have multiplied the goods given to them will be handed a new type of good in a way that will be visible to the blind and audible to the deaf.
2025 is a soil that will allow seeds to grow without even doing twice as much as the previous work. January is a testament to the fertility of the year. If the year ends here, I am happy with the outcomes so far.
If so much can be sown and reaped in a short period of time how much more can be reaped and doubled in the remaining days of the season? Please do not sleep on this gold mine.
This is that year, where in the midst of famine and turbulence you will sow in the land and in the same year reap a 100 fold or a 1000 according to your faith.
Faith alone is not enough, what is in your hands?
Stay prayed up and discerning till I write to you next!
D Oracle!