Introduction

When you give a man purpose, he will committed; get him committed, and he will be creative. If creative, he becomes productive; when productive he becomes successful. When outstandingly succesful, he becomes impactful!

Just any dummy can succeed, if he cares to know what it takes.
⎯ Zig Ziglar

The Cost of Change

The Capital Price

I believe discipline is the capital price you pay for every desired change.

Discipline in my view, can be defined as doing what is required to get at what is desired.

It is doing what is demanded, not what is convenient.

"Discipline is the soul of an army; it makes small number formidable, it procure success to the weak and esteem to all"
⎯ George Washington

Discipline is accepting responsibility for every outcome in my pursuit.

We must strive to become the change we wnat to see.
⎯ Mahatma Gandhi

⇒Someone also said, "Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it is the only thing"

⇒ Anyone who will move the world, must first move himself." It is only changed men that become change world changers.

The Power of Information

⇒ Nothing empowers like knowledge. To be informed is to be transformed.

⇒Information is the key factor to man's success in the race of life.

You cannot fail with facts.

⇒Not even intercession can substitute for information

Nothing creates a future like the revelation of scripture

⇒ Lift up now your eyes to the North, the South, the East and the West and all the land that you see, unto you will I give it.

⇒ How far you can see determines how far you can go.

Don't stop learning

⇒ Everything you are or do today is a result of the information of yesterday.

⇒ The news you acquire determines the moves you generate, and the moves you generate determines the waves you cause, which determines the news you make. It's continuous cycle.

Anyone who stops learning is old, either at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning in life is to keep your mind young. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
⎯ Henry Ford

Readers are Leaders

Some yers ago, someone asked me how I get time to read. I replied by asking him how he gets time to eat. Then I said, "What is eating to you is what reading is to me."

⇒You don't become a man of impact by wishing; you only become one by learning what it takes to do exploits.

⇒ Even the "gift of wisdom" can become stale if you do not learn from others, because an iron cannot sharpen itself; it has to be sharpened by another iron.

⇒ You will be the same that you are this year in five yers time, except for two things - the books you read and the people with whom you walk.

The Book of The Law

In this wild world, we all need a veritable guide to go through safely, and God has designed the channel of information to be the cure for my frustration.

He said in Joshua, "This book of the law contains everything you need to come everything you are created to be,"

⇒ You cannot arrive at a colorful destiny without this Book.

⇒You also have access to professional materials that can enhance your skills and help in pursuit of excellence. Therefore invest your time, resource sand energy.

⇒ Nothing is more valuable than insight in the journey of life.

The Power of Purpose

⇒ Many people are frustrated because they have not cared to discover what they were designed for. We are more bothered about what we are created to be than what we are created to do

⇒Doing what you are created to do is what makes you become what your are created to be.

⇒ No matter how anointed, gifted, or enlightened you may be, if you lack purpose, you will not be accomplished.

Disposition To Serve

Purpose does not target possession, but is designed essentially for contribution. It is not designed for status, but for service.

⇒A discovery of purpose is essentially a discovery of your area of service.

Visionary Encounters

Vision, in this context implies the spiritual unfolding of divine plan and purpose as it relates to you.

⇒It is God calling out individuals and delivering assignments to them.

For instance, the mandate of the Commission He gave to me was delivered in a similar heavenly vision back on May 2, 1981, after an 18-hour visionary encounter, which ended with a divine mandate, "The hour has come to liberate the world from all oppressions of the devil through the preaching of the word of faith, and I am sending you to undertake this task"

⇒ A heavenly vision can also be delivered through prayers of enquiry Habakkuk 2:1-3

Natural Endowments

⇒Such deposits express themselves in things that turn you on when you do them

Passion

"Your passion is a pointer to the problem you are created to solve"
⎯ Mike Murdock

⇒ Living for others make a leader.

Spiritual Bearing

Without God we are helpless.

⇒Most Christians crash, when they allow a little success to disconnect the God.
⇒When you stop seeking God you start sinking in the sea of life.

⇒ Remember it is His purpose you are running with, not yours and you must require His backing

Visionary Bearing

⇒Not every good idea is God's idea

⇒ Whatever lacks divine backing soon becomes a burden.

⇒ If you keep pace with God, you won''t lose your peace.

Role Model Bearing

Jeremiah 6:16
The Lord said to his people, “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths and where the best road is. Walk in it, and you will live in peace.” But they said, “No, we will not!”

⇒ Without reference, you don't become a reference.

⇒ It takes having role models to play your role well.

"If I have seen any farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of those who hav gone ahead of me"
⎯ Isaac Newton

Dare to Dream

⇒ If you can dream it, you may never dare it, and if you will not dare it, you cannot damn it.

⇒ A dream in this context is defined as a mental picture of the future.

The Power of Preparation

No matter what the goal is, whatever your purpose in life may be, will require your personal preparation to ensure a speedy actualization.

⇒ It is common knowledge that the quality of one's preparation determines the quality of one's result in any examination.

⇒ In my opinion , praying without planning is playing without knowing.

What Planning Entails

⇒ The planning process begins with fact finding, and intelligible arrangement of such facts is what is called planning.

⇒ Note that without adequate information, you cannot make quality decisions.

⇒ The time you spend in planning is not wasted time; it is time invest, because the quality of your planning determines the speed at which you accomplish your goal.

Programming

⇒ Whereas planning defines a process, programming dictates the steps.

⇒ While planning defines the required action, programing schedules the steps.

Seeking for necessary helps

This can be divided into two main areas:

1. Looking out for resoruce materials where relevant facts can be gathered that can be integrated into the planning process.
2. Seeking help from above through prayers.

⇒ It is every individuals responsibility to plan.

⇒ Preparation must be comprehensive, before you can obtain outstanding results.

Financial Preparation

There is a place for financial planning in the pursuit of any purpose.

⇒ This is because you will always have something to do with money, as long as you are living here on earth.
⇒ Even the Messiah, the most anointed of all, needed money to accomplish His mission.

What is Money?

Money is simply a medium of exchange for goods and services. There's nothing mystical about money. It's neither a product of change nor luck; it is simply the end product of goods and services.

⇒ If you're not producing anything, and you are not offering any services you are not entitled to financial transactions.

"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." ⎯ Ayn Rand

⇒ The first thing to do in your financial prepatripreparationn, is to seek to be adequately financially informed for the pursuit of your goal.

⇒ This is about being in touch with the investment opportunities around you and how to invest wisely.

⇒ If you can think enough, what you have is enough for a take-off.

The Power of Ideas

Ideas are mental virtues accessible mainly by thinkers

⇒They are giving to only to people who are giving to the art of reasoning

⇒ It is brainwork that make things work

⇒ Wealth in indeed a product of man's capacity to think

A true idealist is the one who pursues what his heart says is right, the way his head says it will work
⎯ Richard Nixon

⇒ Thoughts are mental treasures, but are highly volatile. If they are not quickly engraved on paper as they come, they go to the grave unhindered.

⇒ So don't go to bed without some paper near you.

⇒ Every addicted thinker is a committed writer.

⇒ Inspired ideas can come anytime, so you are free to sit down on down even on the toilet seat and write.

How to access inspired idea

Genesis 24:63

⇒ Meditation is one of the vital breeding grounds for inspiration.

⇒ Understanding does not just drop on people. It comes through a conscious process of meditation.

Invest Time

⇒ Time is the principal raw material needed in the factory of ideas.

⇒ Having separated himself, a wise man begins to seek and reason out a solution.

⇒ The top is open and free, but you have to make your way there.

⇒ If you want to be a partaker of this outpouring of inspired ideas, you need to set time apart to calmly sit down and calculate your options, and chart a course towards a destination.

⇒ Organise ways of getting to where you are going, and programme for results.

⇒ Re-organise your office hours to include a reasoning time. Call it, "Planning time" or whatever you man wish to call it.

⇒ So every time you are committed to thinking, what you are actually doing is programming for improvement.

The Power of Skill

The quality of your skill is what determines the qualities of your output.

⇒A person that is not skilled in his job, no matter how hard he prays, cannot expect to enjoy promotions.

5 Biblical illustrations that helps us see the need for skill in the pursuit for our purpose

1. As a Builder : The building of every tower demands high level skills, else it will end up as an object of mockery. So, is it with the journey of life.
2. As a Farmer: It takes special sense to get a special harvest.
3. As a Soldier: Thou therefore endure hardness, as good soldier of Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he might please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
4. As a Sportsman: Every professional sportsman has a coach, who heavily paid to enhance his training for expertise in his chosen sport.
5. As a Trader: Matthew 25: 14- 16. If we are traders, then we don't only look for capital, but must first acquire the necessary skill for the trade we want to get into. You also need necessary skill in the specific area of trade you intend going into.

Don't Make Noise, Make Moves

You don't need to make noise to make news, you make moves to make news. The moves you make determine the waves you cause and the waves you cause determines the news you make.

Ponder Points

Until Something Changes Within You, Nothing Changes Around You. Every Change Begins From Within. Without A Change Within, There Can Never Be A Change Without"
⎯ Dr.David Oyedepo

Nothing is more valuable than insight in the journey of life. If you leave your ife to chance, you don't have a chance.
⎯ Dr.David Oyedepo

You are either running with a vision, going no a mission, or burning with a passion... If you do not belong to any of these, life is reduced to a burden.
⎯ Dr.David Oyedepo

You don't need a century to effect a change; You only need effective preparation to provoke unusual transformations!
⎯ Dr.David Oyedepo

Those who think on paper think better
⎯ Dr.David Oyedepo