Bayo

On capitalism: If you claim that the rich only get richer cause they got a spring board... That they started out with generational wealth... It begs a new question. So you were born with little, did you at least add a little more? Or is multiplication only possible with plenty? Scripturally it flips on the light bulb about faithful in little and faithful in much and the parable of the talents. The person who got 1 (born with little) complained and whined, just like many of you are doing and the person who got 10 multiplied it. The question wasn't that you got one it was why didn't you add one more? I've said it to a few people... If you're born poor (that is without capital and land and your only factor of production is labor) then sharpen your labor to a hilt But they've convinced you that school is a scam. I insist that on this side of eternity, capitalism is the superior form of resource allocation. Imperfect but superior to all others. Finally, you don't judge a man by where he is, you judge him from where he started. It would be foolish to be born poor and expect to multiply to a Dangote, it's not impossible but that's an outlier. But it's okay to expect that if your parents weren't educated and then they ensured that you were educated, they added one more. What would you add? That's how generational wealth is built

Read your Bible, read your Bible , now look at the things I've discovered 😞

If I were an FMCG leader for an upcoming manufacturing firm in Nigeria today I would do three things 1. Confirm beyond reasonable doubt the soundness of Bokku Marts model, investment, expansion plan and potential risks 2. Find a way to permanently secure a spot on their shelves, even if it means discounting for future reward 3. I would peg my investment to theirs, build capacity to supply their future need I have a great hunch that if they're successful, anyone that does these would dwarf all the top FMCG players Revenue in less than a decade. Everyone thats worked with me since circa 2024, knows I've said this repeatedly

What is the most important reason to pray? I've heard it taught many ways and none of them were as compelling as what I've learned in recent times. I've heard it taught that you should pray to build yourself up in the spirit, or that you should pray because the devil is hard at work, or a prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian 🙄 (I personally dislike this one the most) All these reasons are not (totally) wrong but they're secondary and if they're your motivation to pray, I show you a more excellent reason. The relationship between the Christian God and his followers is very similar to the relationship between a husband and wife -refer to Ephesians 5:31-33 and this is where my understanding for prayer comes from. Devotion (commitment) is the greatest proof of love. Devotion is predictable, frequent and consistent actions that demonstrate love (irrespective of feelings). A man who picks his wife up from work everyday ought to do so because he loves her and this is one of the ways he demonstrates it not because he's scared that other men are working hard to try to get his wife by picking her up from work. So you can see two men do the same action but have different motivations. The stronger motivation for prayer is that I love Jesus and I demonstrate it by keeping times of focused communication with him, not because I need help, protection or "building up" all of these are by-products, the same way it is a by-product that other men won't have the opportunity to pick the wife in my example. Where it starts to fall apart is when she gets her own car, the man whose motivation is wrong suddenly stops devotion, a man with the right motivation gets creative and invents ways to demonstrate his love. In this regard it can be likened to Christians who travel abroad and start to question why they should pray since most of their needs are met. The problem was the motivation. Devotion is a litmus test, to check if you really love God as you say you do and if not, an opportunity to evaluate your faith. It's honest to say, maybe I don't love Jesus the way I think and say I do, what can I do about it?

Things I find ironic 1. People who hate the country but pray and hope they succeed in it. 2. Men/Women that hate the opposite gender and pray and hope they get a good spouse.

Everyone who works in FMCG Marketing or sales in Nigeria would understand this analogy. You are looking at your sales trend in 12 months and the months when you have strong sales are the months you ran a promotion, the months where you didn't run a promo it seemed like you almost lost the business So it seems like you don't have a real business without promos This is exactly how they've run Naij and why I keep insisting we can't keep running on subsidies. We must get the real base and build organic wealth. Subsidies are to countries what promotions are to brands. Unsustainable in the long run but no one has the balls to call it out and so every manager (President) just kicks the can down the road for the next person. For some businesses they never recover, never learn to compete and eventually check out The person that would correct it would be someone with a strong sense of self, right definition of success and failure and does not care to be disliked. Leading Nigerians is a thankless sport, you have to drag them kicking and screaming.

Scripture in Romans 8:12 talks so casually about living above sin as though it's not something people have deep struggles with. The way Apostle Paul speaks about it, It's like he's oblivious to the struggles every human being faces. But we know that he isn't, because in just the previous chapter (Romans 7: 15-18) he records his own personal struggles and frustrations with trying to live above sin. What catches my eye in chapter 8 is that he mentions the tool you can use to live above sin, he describes it as "the power of the spirit" and if we're being honest, that is the vaguest, most abstract thing you can tell someone trying to live honestly and righteously, especially a Christian in the 21st century. If I understand what the book is saying (I think I do), there are two powers that influence human action and here's how to strengthen and weaken them. 1. The power of sin - strengthened by constantly worrying about laws and regulations. The power of sin is strengthened by our knowledge of the law. So ironic but it's true. That because I know better, I'm more at risk (Refer to Romans 7:7-13). Another day I'll explain how this connects to the tree of knowledge of good and evil in Genesis. 2. The power of God's spirit - strengthened by focusing/thinking on a. My relationship with God b. Hoping (holding mental images with my imagination) that what He has promised about salvation would happen. Two of such promises are: 1. A promise that human beings and the rest of creation would be free from suffering death and decay - refer to Romans 8:23-25 (I have a thread about a world without decay, I'll look for it) and repost 2. A promise of resurrection from the dead refer to Romans 8:9-11 3. A promise of glory - this one is harder to teach you how to imagine, but I imagine (pun intended 😂) that you're well on your way if you do point 1 and 2 This is as close to understanding these texts as I've come, I'll share more they better I understand.

Those of you that can eat when you're upset/excited don't know what God has done for you. Any small mood change like this...

Yoruba women and pepper. May God deliver you people

"Are you ready to catch fire!" I feel it in my knees, I can't explain it

Some of the questions we ask are because we do not meditate on scripture enough. I'm not even too critical, I only just got the definitive answer to the question this morning as well, so it touch me too. On the question of 🚨ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED?🚨 The answer is No. If you stopped believing today, you're not saved, if you repented tomorrow and started to believe again, then you are. Let all arguments stop in the book of Romans, specifically chapter 11 verses 19-23 All the teachers and preachers that have had to do gymnastics to explain it in the past, you're welcome 😂

We don't give Reiner the credit he deserves. He embodied the role of "Shield of Marley" too well. Some people think he failed but that's what shields do, they take a beating again and again and don't break. He just refused to stay down and mehn did he get beat

There was me who taught it was Amala Lord deliver me, is this the mind I want to use to take mountains ?😞

I have so many questions, so many

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Not doing the wrong thing because you can't is not virtue, that's impotence disguising as virtue True virtue is having the power but choosing restraint.

I hate to say it but the worst is not behind us I said it a million times that Naijs core problems are incompetence and ignorance not corruption. I've taught it one million times before and I'll teach it a million times more but when I talk people will be getting angry as though they have the monopoly on anger It's this same ignorance and anger that got us here. As if there's anything I can do with your anger Every primary social amenity in Naij today is subsidized and we can't afford it but the demand has grown faster than we can invest to meet organic supply. Education is subsidized that's why we can't pay lecturers Health care is subsidized that's why we can't pay doctors Electricity is subsidized that's why the grid will continue to collapse and we continue to owe Gencos We took out fuel subsidy and almost went back to the Stone age, imagine the real cost of taking the rest out. Again, nation building is not liberal arts, use your anger to fry eggs.

I said on Sunday that I've observed a positive correlation between a person's understanding of the Bible and their ability to understand everything else they read. This is true and there's evidence to support it. For example, it's widely recorded that the civilisation of a country experiences exponential growth when the gospel of Jesus is taught and accepted. I think the Christian faith changes the way people think, making them sophisticated in thought and living. Every other day you guys talk about how Christianity is the white man's religion (it's not, it's actually more rooted in the middle East) and that we ought to have kept our ancestors religions. Lol, how simple 😂 The same way God's people abolished human/child sacrifice and many other barbaric acts in Canaan is the same way it abolished it in many parts of Nigeria... Made the environment more civil Some of you talking would have been sacrificed at birth to Sango or used to do Abobaku (those that die with king's) or something dehumanizing. Don't get me started on what Christianity has done for the advancement of women's rights, another day for that story.