adminItai Chipunza
WEALTH is entirely dependent on a few old principles. None of them are new, what is new is the playing ground. The playing ground is the environment in which the principles are applied, the rules themselves never change. It’s like a soccer game, there are a million football arenas in the world, but the rules largely remain the same despite the place the teams decide to play. Some of the principles of wealth creation are to suppress your spending otherwise known as living within our means, increase saving and invest what you accumulate in savings in wealth creating things. Of cause for me as a Christian a major component of wealth creation is the blessing of the Lord.
Proverbs 10 verse 22
The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
When people read a scripture that says the blessing of the Lord makes one wealthy, immediately they think of a self-proclaimed prophet to consolidate this. This cannot be further from the truth, you don’t need a prophet to get the blessing of the Lord. To get the blessing of the Lord you only need Jesus Christ. Please note that this is in no way to belittle the office of a pastor. But the truth of the matter is that most of us attend cults that preach other things but Jesus every Sunday and don’t even know it. Jesus is the only gate to the blessing of the Lord. Not a prophet or pastor.
Galatians 3 verse 14
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
After the blessing of the Lord, the rest is up to you. How wealthy you can become is limited only to your level of work and understanding of how things work. For example, contrary to what we are told in accounting, a car is not an investment, unless it is used to generate money. In the same manner buying a large house that is too big for your family is a waste of money because like it or not, the bigger the space, the more expensive it is to maintain.
In such trying times in the nation of Zimbabwe, we increasingly become desperate to make it. The vast majority of the population is surviving from one meal to the next. There is no planning for the future of the next generation. This has forced people into a lot of evil practices in search for wealth. The best way to make it in such times is financial immunisation.
Just like we immunise our children against child killer diseases, we must learn to immunise ourselves against poverty. How do we do this, simply by avoiding those things that cause poverty. Avoid dumping large sums of money on things that do not matter. Buy only what you need. Because if you buy what you don’t need, soon you will be selling what you need in order to survive. Let us immunise our finances against leakage.
Just like when going to fetch water, one ensures that the bucket is not leaking, if it is, you first close the holes before fetching water. Thus before you earn money, make your mind up what you will save, what you will spend and what you will avoid. Note that saving is the first thing you do after tithing.
Not the last. Unfortunately the twenty first century Christian has a different way of going about it. They go out to fetch water with a bucket which holes in it, then look for a prophet to tell you why the water won’t remain in the bucket yet it is clear that they need to cover leakages. This further plunges people into greater poverty because they then take the little money left and get on the next flight to the prophet to tell him the bucket is problematic.
One of the worst old sayings is that, if you want to hide anything from an African, put it in writing in a book. I have developed it, if you want to kill Africans, put the disease in food or make it sexually transmitted. This way you can be guaranteed of the death of black people. In no time, they will be gone. Africans have become a laughing stock in the world for being those that hate books. Most of us last read a book in school. We spend time working to fill our bellies and uteruses.
We don’t plan for our future generations. Even when an African inherits wealth and development, very rarely do they maintain it. Usually we are drunk on past victories and success and forget one truth of life, there is no such thing as a permanent victory. If you stop to admire what you have accomplished and forget to persistently strive to be better, then a day of doom is coming. Everything bad in your life is your fault. I say so because the only person you can truly control is yourself. Yes, bad things have happened to you, but it is up to you how you choose to react. If you spend years moping and crying over all the evil that has happened to you, then you can be sure that no good thing is coming because all good things need to be worked for.
Let us learn to read books, invest in our future and believe in Jesus, not in prophets.
Bongani Ndlovu