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I’ve always wanted to be wealthy. I don’t think there was ever a time in my life when I didn’t think this way. There’s a difference between wanting money and wanting wealth , I want wealth. I don’t know about you , maybe you just want a house, a car or just a bit of something. I want what? Exactly.

Yesterday, we discussed a woman who was not only able to build wealth, but also remained grounded in her Christian faith. It got me thinking that perhaps we need a Part 2. Because when Jesus spoke about wealth, He said, “You cannot serve both God and mammon.” I think one of the greatest tests of our faith as believers is not necessarily what we do when we have nothing, but what we do when we begin to prosper.

You get the job. You receive the promotion. You start travelling. The money is coming in. You’re finally loaded. The deals start working out. Then suddenly, you can’t pray like you used to. You don’t have time for God anymore. The very blessings you prayed for slowly become the things that pull you away from the One who gave them to you. So, as we talk about being women of wealth, I think we also need to talk about how to remain grounded when you become a woman of wealth.

Personally , I don’t have plans to remain at this level. I don’t want to live my entire life at a level of just surviving or barely having enough. I desire wealth but I also desire to have the character, discipline and spiritual maturity to carry it well. The stewardship. They say there are four stages of wealth. Let’s talk about and what happens to our faith at each stage.

So I was just busy scrolling on Pinterest, and I came across this board post that said, “The Four Stages of Wealth.” And I’m like, wow, I didn’t even know there were four stages of wealth. I knoooow some of you are discovering this today as well. I knew that I wanted to be wealthy, but I didn’t even know there were stages to wealth. Likeeeee ? everything you want to be or become, you actually have to get knowledge in that area. You need to start reading books, learning, asking questions, and educating yourself about the thing you desire.

I remember one pastor saying that you can’t be desiring marriage and have never even read at least four books on marriage. He was right o, because I started reading books on marriage and they honestly blew my mind. There were so many things I didn’t know. Things I had never thought about, things I had never considered, and things I realised I needed to understand before entering that season. So, you know, back to the wealth story. I didn’t know there were four stages of wealth, and now that I’m reading about them, I’m wowed by my ignorance . I want to be wealthy, but how come I didn’t know this?

So I just want to encourage you, whatever it is that you want to become, start getting knowledge in that area. If you want to be wealthy, learn about wealth. Read books on finances. Learn about investing, money management, assets, businesses, and everything that will help you understand the world you are trying to enter. Don’t just desire the outcome; become knowledgeable about the process.

So, the first stage of wealth is survival. This is when you have enough to meet your basic needs. I think many people are at this level, where they have just enough to get by. There is enough for bread daily, enough to have a meal in the afternoon, enough to pay one bill today and worry about the next one tomorrow. I think at this stage, some people are having two meals a day, and for some, it’s even worse they are having one meal a day. At this point, you’re fighting with coins.

Survival mode is difficult bazalwane . Very, very difficult. Because when you are constantly thinking about your next meal, your next bill, your next payment, or where the money is going to come from, temptation can become very real. This is where we have to be very careful, because desperation can create an environment where compromise starts looking like the best solution.

Where there is too much desperation, there will often be temptation to compromise. People have made desperate decisions because there was a desperate need for money. They say desperate times call for desperate measures. Sometimes while trying to break out of survival mode, people compromise their values, their integrity, their convictions, and even the truth of the Gospel just to get to the next level. Even if it means joining cults, sleeping with wealthy people, yes o. It’s true.

The second stage of building wealth is stability. This is where you become more comfortable. Your fridge is always full, you’re not constantly thinking about groceries, and you’re not waking up in the middle of the night trying to figure out which bill you’re going to pay first. The income you’re receiving, or the money you have built, is enough to cover your bills and still allow you to sleep peacefully at night.

You’re not constantly worried about how you’re going to pay school fees. You’re not stressing about where the money for fuel is going to come from. You’re able to cover your basic needs without that constant pressure that comes with survival. You probably have a home, maybe you have a car, and you are able to afford certain things without having to calculate every single cent. There is a level of security that begins to come with this stage.

This is where one of the greatest spiritual dangers can begin to appear, because comfort can make us forget our dependence on God. When you begin to ask “Why should I pray? What do I need God for? I have everything I need.” Short sighted people think stability is wealth. They think they have arrived here. They brag to family & friends. Yho !

The third stage is freedom. This is where your wealth gives you choices. You can travel, invest, give, build businesses and support others. You can make decisions without money controlling you. You control the money. You send money on errands basically, If you want a particular outfit, you can buy it without thinking, “This is too expensive.” You eat what you want, travel where you want, put your children in good schools, and live in the kind of house you actually wanted with that marvellous kitchen, Heish my Lord, l receive.

This is also where we start losing people in the Church, because this is the stage where you can begin believing that you are the source of your own success. Other people have become “stinky” , you suddenly have OCD, you can’t greet anymore & you are raising your children to be rotten citizens. I used to wonder why we don’t see many billionaires openly saying they are Christians, and I realised that perhaps they are there; they just stopped coming out and saying, “I’m still a Christian.” It’s almost as though receiving wealth made them feel like they had to choose between God and money.

Then lastly, there is abundance, which is where you are not just rich, but you are wealthy. You have different investments, you have built assets, and you have created generational wealth. Even if you were to pass away (God forbid until I’m 100) your children and your children’s children already have some level of stability because you put systems in place that can continue generating wealth. For them, working or not working becomes a choice because you were able to build something that outlives you.

I believe this is the place God wants us to get to not just so that we can live comfortable lives, but so that we can do exploits for the Kingdom of God. The Bible talks about people like Abraham who were wealthy. So when the Lord finally sets you in that place, do exploits for God. Actually, start doing exploits now. Start sponsoring someone through school. Start sowing into someone’s life. Start supporting humanitarian work. Join an organisation like Link Up Africa. We have many projects we want to do.

Start sowing the seeds now. Don’t wait until you are wealthy to become a giver. What this whole conversation has taught me is that there is a process. Go through the process. As you build wealth, in whatever stage, remember that there are people in this world who are struggling. There are people living in shacks. There are children who cannot afford school. There are people who are sick and cannot pay their hospital bills. There are families wondering where their next meal will come from.

So, in your journey of building wealth, even as a woman, remember that giving is a thing of the Kingdom. In the Kingdom, we are just philanthropists. We are givers. Giving is a call for every one of us. All the best, and congratulations as you begin your journey towards becoming a wealthy woman. Build the wealth, but whatever you do, do not lose God.

If you read my blogs but have never met this  Wonderful Jesus that I’m always writing about,  you’d love to get to know Him, Or you know The Lord but have found yourself drifting far from Him, I would love to talk with you. Please send me an email  on yieldedcwcenter@gmail.com or simply comment, and I will reach out to you

Speaking of women who are wealthy, I pray in the name of Jesus that I’ll be part of that list soon! As in soooooonest😂

There are so many women who have done incredibly well for themselves through their careers, businesses, and the things they have put their hands to. They have created value, built businesses and systems, and generated significant wealth. I think historically, when we thought about wealth, the image that often came to mind was a man, the man as the provider, builder, and creator of wealth. But women have shown us that women can create wealth too. Women can build, own, lead, and create systems and organisations that generate wealth and impact.

Even in the Bible, we see women who were builders and influential figures. Sheerah, for example, is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 7:24 as having built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sherah. That alone challenges the idea that women have always existed only on the receiving end of resources. I think she had money. I mean how do you build three cities without moolah? Sheerah had some paper.

I really want us to move away from the mindset that women must always be asking men for money. And yes, in marriage, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a husband providing for his wife but there is a difference between receiving from your husband and having a beggarly mindset. A couple of months ago, I decided to intentionally study the lives of certain people, particularly people who have built significant wealth and influence.

One of them was this woman, Folorunso Alakija from Nigeria. She may not be the wealthiest woman in the world, but she is widely regarded as one of the wealthiest women in Africa, with an estimated net worth of around $900 million to $1 billion. I specifically chose to study her because she is a Christian, and I’ve found her interviews and the way she speaks about her journey, faith, business, wealth and success incredibly interesting.

There is something fascinating about seeing how her faith has influenced the way she approaches business, opportunities, challenges and the wealth she has built. What makes her story even more interesting is that her wealth wasn’t built from one career path. She worked in banking for about 12 years, moved into fashion and built Supreme Stitches/Rose of Sharon House of Fashion, then expanded into printing, real estate and eventually oil through FAMFA Oil.

Imagine being in one place for 12 years and probably thinking, “This is it. I’ll do this forever.” Twelve years is not a joke. You build a routine, you become comfortable, you know what to expect, and then perhaps God begins to tell you, “No, it’s time to start something else.” Like?? The faith for that hasn’t been built in many people. Some people have been teachers for 30 or 40 years, and somewhere along the way, God may have said, “It’s time. Start the business.” The Fear of the unknown stopped them.

You may ignore but have no idea what is waiting for you on the other side of that decision. You have the doubts, What if I leave this job and the business fails? Who will feed me? What if I make the wrong decision? What if I lose everything I have built? I think that’s one of the most fascinating things about stories like hers, you often only see the woman who became wealthy, but you don’t always see the woman who had to make the hard decision to leave what was familiar without knowing exactly how everything would unfold.

Shall I shock you further? She had no formal studies in oil or anything related to the industry, but opportunity met preparedness and resilience. I watched one of her interviews where she shared the story of how she got into the oil business, and honestly, listen, you better be resilient! This woman knocked on so many doors. She is a fighter. She kept knocking. She said, “I am not someone who gives up.” I thought, how many of us are still struggling financially because we give up too quickly?

One setback, one “no,” one “not now,” and suddenly you’ve already designed another logo for another business. You have “moved on”. She failed many times, but she kept going. Some people fail once or twice and immediately assume it means God didn’t call them to that career. What if the failure was simply part of the process? What if the “no” wasn’t God saying, “Stop,” but rather, “Keep knocking”? One more thing I learned from her is her faith.

In every interview, it’s Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. It really made me think about how some of us say we want wealth, but our hearts want it for the wrong reasons. With three thousand in your account, you are already forgetting God. You tell people, “I built this from scratch,” and God is no longer part of your story now that you have the job, the money, or the man. Meanwhile, a woman who is a billionaire in dollars is openly saying, “God made me like this.” She is loud about her faith. She is an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For some of you, with ten thousand in your account, it suddenly becomes difficult to tell people about Jesus, let alone go to church. You have become a big woman. You have become a big man. But God knows our hearts. We may think, “Nah, I would never do that,” but God knows what we would do when the money actually comes. He has tested many people with money, and they failed. Tithing? That one has suddenly become “Old Testament stuff,” but when you had five dollars, you were faithfully tithing.

It’s easier to obey in lack than in abundance. I’ve seen it. Maybe the prayer isn’t, “Lord, make me wealthy.” Maybe we should also be praying, “Lord, make my heart ready for the wealth I am asking You for.” I don’t know about you, but I want to be wealthy. I genuinely hope it is for the right reasons, reasons righteous than whatever I can list with my mouth. Why do you want wealth? If everything is about you, then I’m afraid you may have to wait a little longer.

I believe women will be wealthy. The question isn’t whether it will happen, the question is to whom it will happen. You may have very little right now, but who knows what you will become five years from now? Maybe you will be number one. Don’t read this with doubt. Apostle Folorunso Alakija didn’t know she would become one of the wealthiest women on the entire African continent.  You can be wealthy and godly, dear women. You can be wealthy without sleeping around for it.

You can be wealthy without committing fraud. You can be wealthy without consulting or depending on the powers of darkness. The earth is the Lord’s! If a woman can build that kind of wealth, so can you. Why not you? Believe God. Believe that you can build, create, own, employ people, solve problems and generate wealth while still loving Jesus deeply. And when the money comes, don’t let it become the very thing that takes you away from the One who gave you the ability to create it.

This woman is a powerful reminder of that; even her official biography says that when she reflects on her achievements, her first response is to give glory to God through Jesus Christ.  Here are two of her interviews I watched. Enjoy, and perhaps, more importantly, learn. You will find more on YouTube.

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If you read my blogs but have never met this  Wonderful Jesus that I’m always writing about,  you’d love to get to know Him, Or you know The Lord but have found yourself drifting far from Him, I would love to talk with you. Please send me an email  on yieldedcwcenter@gmail.com or simply comment, and I will reach out to you

In the Bible, we find many women, different women, with different stories, backgrounds, personalities, experiences, purposes, and destinies.

I remember a book I once read about the women in the Bible. I will upload it for you to download.It explored their different attributes, the things they were known for, their roles, their lifestyles, their areas of influence and impact, and even the ways in which their lives had either positive or negative consequences. Some were married, some had children, some experienced rejection, some experienced great influence. Some were godly women, while others were evil. They came from different societies, different circumstances, and different walks of life.

I think one of the things every woman should consider doing is studying the women in the Bible. Take time to list them. Go through their stories. Read the Scriptures concerning them. Study their decisions, their relationships, their strengths, their weaknesses, their victories, their failures, their encounters with God, and the impact their lives had on the people around them. We have so much to learn from the women in the Bible and I’ll tell you why.

Firstly, studying the women in the Bible shows us that God loves women and is mindful of women. God’s mind concerning women is not the same as the mindset many people have carried throughout history or even continue to carry today. God deliberately included women in Scripture. He allowed their stories to be told. He allowed their choices, their victories, their failures, their pain, their courage and their faith to become part of the story through which generations would learn about Him.

The truth is, people have mishandled women. I follow a page on Instagram that, over the past week, has posted almost daily about women who have been killed. A woman somewhere has been shot. Another has been killed by a stranger. Another by a man she was in a relationship with. Another by her husband. Another woman is found killed and hidden in a suitcase. When you see these stories repeatedly, you begin to realise something horrifying, every day, there is someone somewhere who has decided that a woman’s life is worth nothing.

That person doesn’t always look like the monster we imagine. With horns and what what . You see them in an Uber. You may sit next to them in a restaurant. You may work with them. They may be your neighbour, your colleague, your classmate, or someone you met on the street. You don’t necessarily know what someone believes about women simply because they are kind to you.

A woman can meet a man and think, “Wow, this is a loving man. He is going to love me for the rest of my life.” Ohhh he’s hot. He’s this and that. He buys her flowers. She’s never received flowers before so that’s a green flag to her. He buys her food. She looooves food. She’s never eaten free food so once you say KFC, her heart races faster than mine one day when a dog chased me. He buys her gifts. She’s a show off who shows media everything so here’s some content to show her friends. “When your man does abc” .. He takes her out. She’s happy. Butterflies all over. Yeyi! He says all the right things. She has already caught feelings but guess what she may still not know what he believes about women.

Women, a gift does not automatically reveal the condition of someone’s heart or the way they understand your humanity. Some of these men did all those things and more but their mindset on women still wicked! I really wonder,What kind of mindset or heart do some people have? This is why I find it so powerful that God put women in the Bible. He didn’t say, “Women are unnecessary, so let’s leave them out.” We’re not left out.

He allowed women to carry promises.He allowed women to demonstrate faith. He allowed women to lead. He allowed women to serve. He allowed women to influence nations. He allowed women to encounter Him. He allowed women to be part of the lineage of Christ. He allowed the world to learn something about Him through the stories of women. Think about that. As in selaaaaaaaah!God allowed the world to learn about dimensions of Himself through women.

Women are not an afterthought in God’s story.And perhaps this is one of the reasons we need to return to these stories. Because when society has distorted the value of women, Scripture reminds us of how God sees them. Please read that book. I’m actually tired of a society that struggle with so much but refuse to read. Read and find understanding and acquire knowledge to fix that low self esteem problem you are having. Sometimes it’s just knowledge you need. Get it!

As you go through this book, I pray that the Lord will enlighten you, even to the point of helping you find yourself, to find the woman that you are in the Bible, to find the story that is unique to you, so that you may be able to pick up the parts of yourself that you felt were missing or grey. Sometimes, when we study the lives of others, we discover parts of ourselves that we had not yet understood.

I did a series on the women of the Bible last year, so this year we are doing a series on the women that we know, the women that we may not know, the women who are around us, and the women who are making an impact in our world. We are talking about women in ministry, women in finance, women in tech, women in media, women in fashion, and women across different spheres of influence.

So, if you know a woman who is quite influential, whether globally, across Africa, or even within your own community, please drop her name in the comments. I think we have so much to learn from the women around us. Some of these women, actually MOST of these women, we don’t even know personally, but they are women whose lives deserve to be studied. We can look at their journeys and ask, How did she get there? What did she learn? What did she overcome? What can I learn from her?

I think one of the greatest things you can do for your destiny is to learn from people. Learn. I was talking to a friend of mine last week, and I was telling them that one of the things I have had to learn in this season is that, yes, I knew God could use anybody, but now I am actually living it. God is using different people, people younger than me, people my age, people older than me, to teach me things. I have had to learn to sit down and be quiet sometimes because, in that moment, I am the one learning. I am not there to prove that I know more. I am not there to make sure I have something to contribute. I am there to receive.

Have the humility to realise that you can learn from someone. You don’t always have to contribute. You don’t have to say your part, your ten cents, your two cents, your one cent, or any cent at all. You don’t have to drop a bomb every time you enter a conversation. Sometimes, you simply sit and listen. This brings me to something completely unrelated, but since this is my blog, and you came here to read my blog, let me write what I want to write. 😂😂😂

One of the skills I genuinely think people need to learn is how to listen. When someone sends you a message or calls you, listen. Particularly as women, I think sometimes we can be very reactive. Listen to understand. Don’t read a text just to fight. Don’t read a text while sharpening your response. Listen to understand what the person is actually saying. Learn to listen before you respond. Listen well. Some of us have heightened emotions, and sometimes someone does something and immediately, everything in us reacts. Please give yourself a moment. Listen. Understand. Then respond.

Anyway, that was completely unrelated. I just thought I should throw that in since this is my blog. Maybe it was for someone I don’t know o but take it home. You argue a lot because you don’t listen to people, you want them to listen to you. I’ll see you tomorrow. We are starting with women in ministry. I have a couple of women I am going to feature here, women whom I believe are worthy of us studying, learning from, and discovering their journeys. See you tomorrow yielded people . I laaarv you!

If you read my blogs but have never met this  Wonderful Jesus that I’m always writing about,  you’d love to get to know Him, Or you know The Lord but have found yourself drifting far from Him, I would love to talk with you. Please send me an email  on yieldedcwcenter@gmail.com or simply comment, and I will reach out to you