You will not become successful because you are religious, because you believe in a particular God or because you go to church every Sunday and pray regularly.
Like wise, your pastor is not successful because he is the man after God's heart or because he knows the Bible by heart.
These are the ten richest people in the world: Bezos, Gates, Buffet, Arnault, Helo, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Bloomberg and Page. None of them has ever come out to talk openly about their religious beliefs. Except Gates who has declared himself as an Atheist, the rest keep their religious beliefs or lack of out of the public eye. In other words, they do not believe that their religious affiliation is relevant enough to be associated with their success.
Have you ever asked yourself why more than often, your pastors do not observe what they preach? Think of Apostle Suleiman, why on Earth is that man still allowed to run a church in spite of the scandal he was involved in a couple of years ago?
Why are these pastors still thriving, even though their personal lives do not reflect the teachings of their religion?
Well, here is your answer.
Your pastors are succeeding because, just like every other business person, they are doing business in the way it ought to be done.
There are five elements a successful business person follows through to reach their success and they know that lacking just one of them means that they might never be able to attain success or maintain it.
These five elements are talent/skill(s), attitude, opportunity, resources and luck.
How is your pastor observing these rules?
1. Talent/Skill
Your pastor's talent are charisma and manipulation. Your pastor has been able to convince you that the only way to become successful is by doing what they tell you to do as opposed to what you feel is the right thing to do. They tell you to come to church every Sunday, give offering, sow seeds, pay tithes, contribute to their personal expenses, raise funds for the ministry and never contravene any of their rules. They have practised this over and over again that this talent has become an extraordinary skill.
2. Attitude
Your pastors are technically fishermen and when they fail to catch a particular fish, they simply move on to the next one. They may even change their city of residence and their name just to succeed in their project. The point is, like anybody else who wants their business to thrive, they do not stop at the first obstacle or failure.
3. Opportunity
Your pastor's opportunity is your gullibility, your frustration and your hopelessness. Why do you think that the most successful and richest pastors also come from the poorest and most deprived countries? You might say, there are many rich pastors in America and America is not poor. Well, I have news for you. There is a lot of poverty in America. There are 300 million Americans and about 1/3 of them are living in poverty. That is 100 million fish in the sea for those pastors to fish.
4. Resources
Your pastor has two resources: their time and you. In exchange for their time, you give them everything you have: your time, your trust and your money.
5. Luck
A person who wants to become a pastor in Iceland knows very well that he or she will never succeed. Over 90% of Icelanders are Atheists. However, a person who wants to become a pastor in Nigeria knows that his or her chances of succeeding are extremely high because of the environment. That is what luck is all about: being at the right place at the right time.
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Like I said, when you lack one of these five elements you might never able to achieve success or maintain it.
1. Why do lottery winners go broke within 3-5 years?
2. Why do celebrities go broke, even while they are still active?
3. Why do heirs go broke few years after receiving their inheritance?
3. Why do you wish you were born in one country, rather than in another?
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You can pray all you want. But while you pray, keep these 5 cardinal rules in mind. If you have a talent, turn it into a skill. If you don't have a talent, acquire a skill. If you are lazy, easily discouraged, terrible at managing funds, seek professional counselling. If there are no opportunities, create one. If you do not have resources, become a resource. And if you are unlucky, pray for God to favour you.
Your pastor is doing this. Stop doing as he or she says, and starts doing what he or she does.
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