Bu$iN€$$ Dig€$t: Investment is like farming and hunting. Farming is longterm, while hunting is short term.
Bu$iN€$$ Dig€$t will provide a guide on when to do a long term business-farming or when to do a brisk business-hunting. And until you’ve sure of the end you aren’t qualified to start. Just like Jesus Christ practically ‘farmed’ our salvation for us. Heb 12:1… for the joy that was set before Him, He endured the cross, despised the shame. This is an ever true guide to successful farming
Bu$iN€$$ Dig€$t: No great or big business you see today that didn’t start small, not even one. This generation has decided to twist the hand of God to in a bid to fast track their achievement, how untrue they are to themselves. The Holy Bible says ‘though your beginning be small, your latter end will greatly increase’, which was why it also gave a caveat that ‘despise not the days of little beginnings’, also it said ‘he that is faithful in little, much more shall be committed into your hands’. Needless to say that the Bible is a complete manual for our life, therefore study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needed not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of Truth. ‘Bishop David Oyedepo said, you are permitted to start small, but you are not permitted to remain small.’ Because you came 1st in class in JS1 does not mean you should be promoted to SS3 to face WAEC. Take time to climb the ladder, don’t jump to the top. Even if you say you want accelerated promotion, excuse me please, its not your business to accelerate it its simply ‘GAP’ God’s Accelerated Promotion. Go & start small today and see what God will do to that little beginning.
Bu$iN€$$ Dig€$t: God is a Business God. We shall consider the businessman attribute/personality of God today. God is the first ever investor & He remains the best. He said be fruitful and multiply; replenish the earth, meaning He expects an increase or a return. Its wasn’t for lack of where to direct the river to that he directed 4 rivers into the garden of Eden, neither also not because, one river cannot sufficiently take care of Eden, because He is God, He created all things so that we will not have excuses not to invest. Four solid income streams was first taught by God our creator. Do you think He didn’t feel the pains when He invested Jesus Christ to get us saved? Infact that was the best He could offer, and look @ the returns of investing just 1 Jesus over 2000years ago. So many ‘Jesuses’ whom He clearly said we are to do greater. Until you give your best, you cannot get the best out of your investment & if you think what you have now is not good enough, go & ask the servant in the Parable of the talents, it will be surely taken away and added to the person that traded with his & yielded returns. Until you allow the corn of wheat to fall down & die(investment) it abideth alone.
Bu$iN€$$ Dig€$t: You cannot succeed in a venture you have not been trained. Like I always tell people, every business has its tricks and until you are initiated as it were into it, you will fall prey of the tricks therein. It is what you know that gives you an edge. That is KNOWLEDGE. Money is not the most important requirement for starting or succeeding in Business, it is the idea, knowledge & understanding of where to rightly invest this money that is key. Whose says you can’t learn at any age? We actually stop learning when we breathe our last here on earth. Go and ask a grandfather @ 70 whom I prefer to be anonymous, who was called to the Nigerian Bar at that age with his last child last year in Nigeria, and guess what, he’s practicing as we speak. God will naturally empower you in the area of your core competence; check out Peter the great fisherman, God blessed his fishing business when he had that explosive catch-what a breakthrough. What of Paul-a lawyer, God garnished his speech, & he wrote majority of the books in New Testament. It is what you have in your hands that God will use, multiply it and yield results for you. God isn’t a magicians and He’ll not become one because of our laziness, un-preparedness. You will not be able to handle the breakthrough when it comes so it will amount to waste and been a profit conscious God, He knows where to allocate such breakthrough, that’s why He said gather the fragments after feeding over 5000pple and there were 12baskets full left over, who do u think went away with the 12baskets?? Send in your responses, we’ll continue tomorrow.
Bu$iN€$$ Dig€$t: The Boy! He invested into the lives of people, business-wise: You cannot get returns if you don’t invest and invest correctly. He would have also shared the meal with a few friends, that’s investment also, they would have said, O boy, thanks, na you save us today, which is also a returns (psychological gratification), but the boy saw beyond the ordinary, he took a greater risk, he invested in the Kingdom where mot cannot destroy. The boy automatically got 12 messengers, because the disciples who were Personal Assistants to Jesus where the ones who gathered the leftovers. You will wonder how come this small boy knew what to do? He possibly wasn’t the only one in the crowd with a little food to eat? Tutelage, he must have been taught by his Parents and waiting for an opportunity to try it out. Therefore, train up a child in the way he should go and when he’s old.. Since 2008 by the grace of God, I have been paying tithes for my children, so its not possible for God to forget that investment in His Kingdom, because He is not a taskmaster neither is He a debtor. If you choose to rationalize because of your academic stands, I pity you; you must have been the one who rationalized your blessings away. Go & invest in the Kingdom of God today, go to your local assembly & find something to do. There’s always something to do.
Bu$iN€$$ Dig€$t: Every business or Investment has its gestation/maturity period. You don’t expect a Mango tree to yield it fruits the same period with a Tomato plant. The understanding of every investment period will make you not to engage in inappropriate comparing which amounts to an exercise in futility. Jesus Christ didn’t rush into turning water into wine & when He did, the wine was adjudged the best in the ceremony. It was reserved for the last & people wondered why? Infact when they wanted Him to beat the gun, He simply said my time has not come. What this tell us is that, something good doesn’t come easy. Let us understand Investment Timing and that dividend and profit are not one and the same even though both are returns on investment. Judas Iscariot was a certified accountant who managed the treasury for Jesus, but he couldn’t reap the dividend of his sojourn with the Master, he was interested in immediate profit. We saw how he ended. What kind of returns do you seek? Profit or Dividend?
Bu$iN€$$ Dig€$t: The height of Success in Business is determined by the depth of preparation: Beloved we are in an era of ill-prepared people who run into venture, no wonder great has always been their fall. Btwn when David was anointed king to when he smelt the throne, it took 13yrs, he needed to be under tutelage; btwn when Joseph dreamt of his glorious future & when he became PM in Egypt it took 17yrs; beloved it took 21yrs after the mantle hit Elisha to come into limelight, even the father of faith sir, it took 25yrs after God gave His promise of a child to manifest. God is the best advocate for proper preparation, that’s why the entire venture He’s involved in succeeds very well. If you don’t have anyone as a businessman whom you report to and seek for counsel you will soon fail. I can tell you categorically that, being in business, I have mentors whom I submit myself to for guidance, tutelage, rebuke, re proof, correction and in some cases outright cancellation of plans. It is to the end that I speak to us, that as long as you seek the right guidance you will surely find it. There’s no way you can bypass the process & expect to prosper. The Pastor of your Church is not more anointed than you, it is the preparation he has subjected himself to that makes the difference. Are you ready to pay the PRICE of preparation & enjoy the PRIZE of success?
Bu$iN€$$ Dig€$t: The Blessing of God makes rich: Not all rich people are blessed. In fact riches is not synonymous with blessing. The blessing of God is unequivocally present in all condition & location. Before Joseph swam in riches he was long blessed. A blessed man is a change agent. Its the blessings of God on your business that is contagious and not the riches you gather up. Among his People, in the Pit, Portiphar’ house, Prison, he was blessed, it was in the Palace that the Blessings of God manifested the riches of God in him. Dearly Beloved, until God blesses you, you cannot be rich. So what do you crave for, the Blessing or the riches? Yours-in-Business: CEO Emmab Global Concept; Emmanuel Idenyi-Shaibu Esq. follow me on twitter @EIdenyi, or http://www.emmabglobalconcept.com
The number one reason why people may not be wealthy is foolishness. It’s possible to be holy and foolish! It’s also very possible to be holy, pure and righteous but foolish by not planning ahead. Be wise! The holy writ say, I am the God that gives Power to get wealth. The power is what God has long released and not wealth, you are to use the power released to make wealth.
Bu$iN€$$ Dig€$t: If you fail in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Why? Because you didn’t know. The bible says, they that know their God shall be strong & shall do exploits. The quality of your business exploit is a function of how much you know. How do you know? By reading, studying, training, learning and practicing it. That’s why the Bible also put it that, study to show yourself approved unto God a workman, that needs not be ashamed…that is to say studying is not for lazy people, its not for people who are ashamed to pummel themselves in all ways to learn. We have a bunch of people who feel that because there’s not price tag for the seminar its not worth it. It might be free but definitely not cheap. The fact that you had F9 in Maths in SS1 didn’t not stop you from facing it in WAEC, you braised up to it, the fact that DANA crash did not mean we shouldn’t fly again. Hear this; that you lost money to a ‘wonderbank’ doesn’t mean there are no more good & better investment windows. The Salvation decision you take today may look stupid to all, but its to secure your destiny & future.
Larry Wall says ‘the road to success is always under construction’ Life itself is a going concern and until you breathe your last there is no room for giving up.
“You cannot reign in the area you are not trained.” Emmanuel Idenyi-Shaibu
“A gift you don’t service cannot not serve you” Emmanuel Idenyi-Shaibu
NB: These are a compilation of some of my write ups on Business Digest
Yours Sincerely,
Emmanuel Idenyi-Shaibu ICEN, NIMN
The Millennium Entrepreneur
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Emmanuel Idenyi-Shaibu Esq. 