I am not on Twitter because of CT- Christian Twitter. I am there for political and socio-economic discourse- all of which I just read and pass quietly. But as it goes, my posts on Facebook find their way there.

Most arguments and errors in Christendom are LANGUAGE BASED. Some err because of language. And some misconceived what others say because of language. A student of language will easily spot this.

A believer sang a song “Daddy wey dey pamper”.
Someone criticized that statement saying God doesn’t pamper. People came out at him. They said he criticized the singer. He said, he has never listened to that song let alone target the singer but the phrase was what he felt should be corrected.

This matter never reach to poke each others’ eye. The same me that says my daddy spoilt me as I reflect and isolate his caring side, can come again and say my father is a colonel while I zoom out his disciplinary side. A wife can talk about her caring husband so much that you would be like: ” is your husband a fool”. Wait for the day she would talk about how her husband dealt decisively with an issue and you would almost fear for her.

You can argue that God is not a staunch disciplinarian and be right. You can also argue that He doesn’t over care and be right as well. But LANGUAGE permits me to go that length of emphasizing an aspect of Him to drive out a point per time.

A man of God preached a message titled: “SINNERS IN THE HAND OF AN ANGRY GOD”. That message is ranked one of the greatest messages ever preached. But I can never preach a message with that title. I would rather preach: ” SINNERS IN THE HAND OF A LOVING GOD”. People listened to that man’s message and wept for days and committed their hearts to God. If you listen to mine, you will laugh, smile, rejoice and commit your heart to God as well.

You can argue from now till tomorrow, none of us is wrong with our title. It’s just a side of God that we have zoomed out to show to sinners with the end result of bringing them to the THRONE.

There are some misconceptions I noticed in the body of Christ today, it is all about the “fruit of the Spirit.”
I’ve been to some gatherings whereby I will ask the question that “how many fruit of the spirit do we have?” Some will say nine (9), while some will say seven (7.)
I’m putting up this article to correct that error.

The first thing I want you to know is that, when we are talking about the fruit of the spirit, the concept emanated from the word of Jesus in the book of John 15:1-4;
[1] I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
[2] Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
[3] Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
[4] Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

You should understand the picture Jesus was painting here. He said, “He is a tree, and in that tree, there are many branches, and the branches bring forth fruit.” Jesus said “fruit,” not “fruits.” He said, “any branch in me that bringeth not fruit, I taketh away.”

This is linked to the fruit of the Spirit that we are talking about. When Jesus was going, He made a promise to us that He was going to send another comforter and He’s going to be with us forever. This comforter is Jesus Christ Himself, Jesus is the one that is with us, living in us, and that is with us in form of the Holy Spirit.
If Jesus said that “I am the tree,” and Jesus is not on earth currently, and He gave us a replacement, a substitutionary personality that He’s going to be with us, that personality is the one that is going to represent Jesus. That is why we call it the fruit of the Spirit, not the fruit of Jesus. Maybe when Jesus was on earth, you can liken those attributes to the fruit of the world, or the fruit of Jesus, but currently, Jesus is not on earth, He is in us in form of the Holy Spirit.

When we are talking about the fruit of the Spirit, we should look at the tree, a tree does not bear different fruits. Have you ever seen a tree bearing up to seven (7) or nine (9) fruits? So, it is not fruits of the Spirit, but where the misconception used to come is what Paul told us with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the book of Galatians 5:22-23;
[22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
[23] Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

These are what they used to call the fruits of the Spirit. But look at what Paul said, he said, “but the fruit,” he didn’t say the “fruits of the Holy Spirit,” Even if it is the fruits of the Holy Spirit, the next “marker” that should follow it should be the “plural marker.” He said that the fruit of the Spirit “is.” If it is more than one, it shouldn’t be “is,” it should be “are.” “The fruits of the Spirit are…” then we will begin to be mentioning them. But he said, “the fruit of the Spirit is…” So, we should sit down, look at this point and think about what Paul was really saying here. You’re mentioning nine (9) different attributes, you’re mentioning nine (9) different characters, and you’re telling us that it is one.

This is where I want to explain it to us, whenever you’re reading a bible, and you get to a junction whereby you’re not getting what the scripture is saying very well, what you should do is to compare different versions of the scripture. I’ve met with so many people, and they’ll tell me that they don’t understand what the bible is saying, the only answer I’ll give to them is not to explain it to them, I’ll tell them to go and read it from another version of the scripture and they’ll come back to me leaping for joy that they got the understanding already. That is what we are going to do also in other to understand what Paul is trying to say here.

Look at the book of Galatians 5:22-23 from “The Passion Translation, (TPT)
vs 22–23; But the fruit produced by the Holy Spirit within you is divine love in all its varied expressions:
Joy that overflows, peace that subdues, patience that endures, kindness in action,
a life full of virtue, faith that prevails, gentleness of heart, and strength of spirit.
Never set the law above these qualities, for they are meant to be limitless.

Paul said that the fruit that the Spirit produced is just one, which is “divine love.”
And this “divine love” can be seen in different ways. For example; I can be manifested in different forms or ways: To my mother, I am a son, to my disciples, I am their spiritual father or discipler, to my younger brother, I am an elder brother, to my child, I am a father. That is me manifesting in different forms. So is the fruit of the Spirit, it is just one, and it is manifesting itself in different forms.

I hope you understand from this article that we are only having one fruit of the Spirit.

If you’re having any questions or contributions, feel free to drop them in the comment box.
Thank you so much!

We have 💡light tonight in Jesus Name

How Successful People Think

I also say they think creatively and innovstively
I have mentioned that successful people think big no matter how low their state may be at the present moment in time
Remember that I told you they didn’t come up with this habit after being successful. They grew with the habits. These habits made them

4. Successful People like us are optimistic

Successful people are highly hopeful.
They see a positive ending and that is why they can take calculative risks.
That’s what it means to be optimistic
That’s why when you see them going down, they pick up again
They could see the end as bright and they are never down whatever it is at the moment.
Whenever they fall, they rise again.
Bishop Oyedepo explained that when their ministry had only one branch in a corner of a place, their signpost reads: worldwide.
They look at the future with big high hopes and expectations.
He said people passed by and laugh at them but he didn’t care. He didn’t see himself or the ministry in that corner.
It worked for me, it worked for our ministry. Even though we started in a room apartment, we talked big and we took bold steps!
See, Optimism is not a motivational speech but an inspirational reality.
They think problem solving thoughts.

5. Successful people see themselves as bigger than the problem.

Successful people think as problem solvers.
They don’t shy away from problems.

6. Successful peeople always takes stepsThey think as they move and move as they think.
Successful people are not thinkers and sleepers, they are thinkers and movers, as they think and they act.
If you think positively with the right mindset and not just wishes, there is no way you will stay complacent. You will always forge ahead and move ahead.

SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE AND TIME

Receive this very mindset in Jesus Name.

A. Successful people value their morning time!

How do they see time?
What do they think about time?
The Scriptures says “woe to you o ye lands, who its kings eat in the morning.
The Yoruba tribe of Nigeria would say: ‘the real day is the morning time’.
The morning time is the most treasured time of the day.
The morning time carries more value than the night time.
Jesus Christ says “are there not 12 hours in the day? John 11:9”.
Take note that, The beginning of the week is the morning of the week.
Your youthful age is the morning period of your life.
I see many young men and ladies wasting away the early part of their lives.
That is why the preacher in the book of Ecclesiastes advised that man should remember his God in the days of his youth.
When you open the head of many young ladies under 30, what you see in there is “husband”.
I do say that what many youths miss before the age of 30, they will spend the rest of their lives trying to catch up with it.
They are just catching fun, nothing do them.
They want to marry. When you open the head of most boys, what you find there is “fun”.
Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire at the age of 23. I am not saying that you must make billions or millions before you clock 30, but you must aim to be at the top of your career before that age.
Those who started their race in time have a higher tendency of winning.
Most top billionaires today, started making their several millions at the age of 30.
However, it doesn’t matter what point you are today, it is not too late to start aiming high.

B . Successful people are never in a hurry.

Have you discovered that those who get late to meetings and events are always coming in, in a hurry.
. They get to wherever they need to reach at the time they wanted or planned or ought to.
You will never see a successful person rushing or getting to a place late.
And that’s because they have good time management.
You see them running, sweating and breathing heavily yet, those who come early arrived very calmly?
What is most important to a successful person than money is their time.
They don’t permit people to crash on them and steal their time.
I think I should stop here
By the time you’re downloading it, it will be much
It’s much already
Receive the grace to apply in Jesus Name

I have said to myself that the day I remove “L” from the car, I will share some driving tips free of charge. Though, it’s been almost a month now but better late than….

When you want to start learning, people will tell you driving is very easy especially if its an automatic! You will see someone who has never driven before tell you: “shebi it is automatic, it is very simple. Our last born did not even learn it, he just started driving when he was 7½ years old!” Those who can drive already will tell you: “there is nothing in driving, it’s just about “aya nini”-having chest (i.e confidence).

If you allow those statements to get into you, the day you begin to learn, you would feel like becoming an expert so that you can tell people that you started driving from the dream. And when it seems you are not getting it, you will start feeling like a dullard.

You see that 7½ years old may be able to move a car, it is quite different from driving. And that thing they call chest (confidence) can only come the more you stay behind those steering wheel. Talking about being good at driving, time & practice is needed. I am talking about up to 6 months here. So, don’t pursue becoming an Henry Ford the same day you started.

That being said, with a regular practice, if it’s an automatic car, one week, too much. I taught my wife to drive in less than 7 days. You can spread your 7days into 2weeks or more depending on your schedule.

TiPS-

Get someone to teach you. Follow their instructions even if you don’t understand it. Don’t be self-confident.

Day One– go to the field, don’t go to the road. All you want to learn is to get familiar with the major driving car components- brake, throttle and most especially your steering wheel. You will also get introduced to other parts.

Day Two– warm up on the field then get to the road. Untarred road within the street are good picks here. Don’t go to major roads with human beings, parked vehicles and drainage. What you will learn to use the most that day is your BRAKE. You will start familiarising with your throttle as well. Make as many rounds as possible.

Day Three– do more rounds on the street then let your instructor take you to a tarred road but still a less busy road. This is just to spy the road. This time, you will see human beings and drainage on both side of the road. You may not do more than one round that day.

Day Four– It is time to learn your throttle. Warm up on the street then go to the tarred road you spied yesterday. Make several roads and go a long distance (within the same route).

Your instructor will tell you to keep the right side of the road and avoid getting into the middle. But you will be afraid of entering into the ditch (gutter) that’s on the right side. This fear is real! But here is the cheat code. You don’t have to stick to the right-most part of the road. Use your mind to divide the road into two and move a bit to your right- you will be okay!

Again, use your mind to cut the road into two- half for you and half for the oncoming vehicle. But you won’t be too accurate, so add a little space to your right and keep driving.

Bear in mind that the road is not always straight so, you will keep using the trick. Also, on a typical Nigeria road, you will vehicle parked on the road side, people walking and even stalls. All you have to do is to divide the road again into two, take your own half. If there is more space to your side then move a bit to your right. If the road has become very thin for two vehicles at a time, just take your own half and leave the coming vehicle to take care of itself.

Your aim on the road this 3rd day is not to DRIVE, it is just to MOVE the car and get more familiar with various components most especially the fearful throttle that will make the vehicle seems as if it’s jumping and also the brake and the pin-pin. Be ready to blast many ON. You will also start building chest (confidence) on this day.

Day Four- drive up to the same route with you instructor. Using the same environment helps. Did I tell you to put up your ” L” and emergency light all through? Please do. You must have been learning some reverses and turning too.

Reverse they say is difficult but my two students learn it the first day. You will be told to ask yourself which side you want to go then turn your steering to the opposite direction but let me show you a simpler way. Ask yourself what direction you want the bottom ⤵️ of your vehicle to go to, then turn that way. Always take all the time you have to think while reversing. You will make mistakes, correct yourself and move on.

You may enjoy driving the 3rd day but this 4th day will be a bit frustrating. Reason is that, on day 3, you were driving at a very low rate but today, you have added some speed. With speed comes higher expertise. Meanwhile, always bring the vehicle to the speed you can handle. Don’t be in a hurry to run. You will run all you want after you are good.

If I were your instructor, I will like to introduce you to the express road before we close on day four. Just to spy.

Day 5– welcome to day 5. Warm up on your tarred route then drive up to a two-way express road with barricade at the middle. This is a type of road where all oncoming vehicle take one side, while the going vehicles take another side. And there is a barricade in-between. Look for the one with barricade in-between.

Your instructor may tell you to keep the slow lane which is the right hand side but I got an instructor who told me to keep the fast lane. Reason is, driving on slow lane in Nigeria especially in Ibadan can be frustrating. Micra, Maruwa & Okada (commercial drivers) will show you shege. They will just be parking anyhow. But if you are in the fast lane, anyone who doesn’t like your speed can easily bypass.

On this day, you will be learning some speed. The safest is 20-40KM/hr. You will also appreciate the purpose of side and rear mirror. Driving on the express the first time is always interesting especially with less pot holes. It will give you the confidence which you need and you will find yourself driving better on single lane tarred routes.

Day 6- do some rounds on the two-way express then go to the express road that has no barricades in the middle. This time, keep the middle or slow lane. You will appreciate your mirror more. You should also drive through other major and minor routes that day with your instructor.

Day 7– drive the car to Church. All along, observe other people drive especially when you’re seated with them.

Now, you are a driver. What you need is more practice. What I did was to drive around the city for another one week with an instructor or just someone who didn’t even know how to drive but would be communicating road signs and routes with you. An instructor would be more beneficial because they will give you tips as you drive.

Please Note-

Some things I said especially on the roads to learn may be a traffic offence in some cities and countries. Where it is against the law and such law is enforced, apply with discretion.

Above all, I hope you found it helpful. 7 days is not too long to learn a skill you will need for the rest of your 70years and more. So, don’t be in a hurry and be safe. If you don’t yet have a car, keep this post by yourself. Don’t come and be asking me: “where is that post you wrote in September, 2022”.

©Ife Adetona

A very good daughter of mine came with a question. A brother just delivered unto her, a parcel of “rhema” but she was confused. She didn’t know the right answer but she knew what the brother was saying is not correct. The brother said and I quote:

“Holy Spirit isn’t Holy Ghost: what’s the Spirit? What’s the Ghost? Holy Spirit is automatic when you give your life to Christ and it becomes ghost when it manifests as tongues.”

This fine brother thought he had just gotten a revelation or probably he also heard it from someone but it’s all WRONG.

Remember that the Bible wasn’t originally written in English! When the Bible was translated to English, Holy Ghost was used in KJV but scholars felt the word “Holy Ghost” in English was not good enough so, other versions used “Holy Spirit”. You can check your versions.

I was at a programme many years ago. A fine brother was dishing out the word and breaking rhema. Though, he had a good idea but he got the scriptures he was referencing all twisted. He was using that Scriptures to mean what it doesn’t mean. He was doing what I called “reading into the scriptures” that is, he was adding his own. When the anchor of the programme who was our discipler took the microphone, he tried to correct those mistakes and I felt good about it even though many of those seated may not get it. You see, good intention is not enough.

WAY FORWARD

There is no teacher of the word who would say he had never made some mistakes in the representation of the word. The only difference is that some people are not ready to learn. Their mouth is wide open but their ears are blocked. It’s one thing to be ignorant, it’s another thing to be proudly ignorant. Such people have committed damaging errors.

If you love to teach the word then more than anybody, you must attach yourself to a discipler or teacher. At the beginner stage, this is the person you show your revelations or derivatives to and would direct you before you go out there to publish it. Even at an advanced stage, Paul went to Peter & James to compare notes (Gal. 1:18-19). Another way to compare notes is by reading the books of your discipler or those who are known as renowned teachers of the word.

There are basic laws of “interpreting the scriptures”. If you go through the process of training and learning, you will be exposed to them and you won’t commit public blunders.

Another thing is to SUBJECT your revelation or derivatives to TIME. Derivatives simply means revelations which are not entirely new but has it’s root in an already found truths or revelation. There is actually nothing like a new revelation, they are all revivals or derivatives. “There is nothing new under the sun” Eccl. 1:9.

SUBJECT it to other scriptures. One law says: “explain a scripture in the light of other scriptures”. I do tell anyone who comes to me with a fresh revelation to back it up with other refrences.

SUBJECT it to the Spirit. Don’t be too exicted to listen to that gentle restraint of the Spirit that is telling you that your rhema is not yet perfected.

After all said and done, I believe in GROWTH and you cannot grow until you try things out by use & exercise (Hebrews 5:14). I mean, you have to publish your messages and assess yourself by the feedbacks. But do not demonstrate a critical spirit like the first example I gave. You shouldn’t go about knocking people down saying “yours is wrong”, “mine is right”.

As you grow through this process, your channel will be refined and clean knowledge would easily flow through it in JESUS NAME.

Sometimes ago, a test was conducted for managers.
While the less successful ones have a pattern of thinking.
They discovered that successful managers have a pattern of thinking
I have also seen this in many people
AMswill agree that there is a pattern in how leaders with high Anagkazo results think
And those with fewer result
Even School teachers will tell you this
What am I trying to say?
If you observe how successful people think and adapt their ways, you will end up successful
If you can change your thought pattern, your life will change
Pro 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:
So, tonight, let’s examine a pattern of thought of successful people across time, money, people and so on

THOUGHT PATTERNS OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

1.Successful People think big and see themselves as employers of labour.

I’m not just talking about people with a lot of money but successful people with wealth and in God
You must have heard of thinking big
It is not a farce or fallacy, it is a reality
They see themselves as prosperous people even though their beginning may be small.
The success tendency of successful people is not contained in their affluence; it is contained in the influence of their minds.
Even when a person with the billionaire mindset is wearing a rag, he doesn’t behave like a slave but as successful.
It is not contained in their present riches but in their thought.
Everywhere Joseph went, he was always the head. He was the youngest (the 11th son), yet he had such a big dream that his father said to him: “are you in any way insinuating that you will be greater than your father, mother and all your siblings?”
He was a slave, yet he became the caretaker of Potiphar’s house and refused to succumb to the influence to sin from the master’s wife.
I believe he saw himself as higher than Potiphar let alone his wife.
He was in jail, yet he told the man heading to the palace to remember to mention his name when he got to the palace because he knew that he wasn’t going to die as a prisoner.
Joseph had a successful mindset and behaved accordingly.
The Bible confirms that Joseph was prosperous even when he had no clothes (Genesis 39:1-2).
Note the part – “behaved accordingly”
Even when he’s labouring day and night, he believes that he is going to make it in life.
When a successful person has no shoes and walks around bare-footed, he believes he is an employer of labour.

Genesis 39
1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man, and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian
The successful person thinks big; in whatever they do, they want to bring something big out of it.When Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook, his colleagues urged him to sell it to the billionaires bidding for it.
He insisted that he didn’t build the platform to sell.
As of last year, he was the eighth richest man in the world. The man that wanted to buy Facebook from him, Bill Gates is the fourth richest man.
It doesn’t matter if that leader is in 100 level or secondary school or a graduate or a lawyer…you are GREAT!
Every day, I greet SADOZ leaders by saying… GOOD EVENING GREAT LEADERS
SADOZ IS GREAT!
I define creativity as the creation of new things from old things.
Successful people think creatively.
It is the act of turning ideas into reality.
They turn ideas into reality.
Do you see those who have 1,000,000 ideas but 0.1 reality?That’s not how successful people think

2.Successful People are innovative

They look for new ways to do things not minding how long a method has been in place.
They look for better ways to do the same thing they have been doing.
I tell many people that I counsel that if I start doing the kind of business they are doing, within days I will look for innovative ways to do the very thing they are doing and do it better than they are doing it.
They keep researching, studying, thinking and generating new concepts.
Once you have this mindset that I am talking about, wherever you are and in whatever you do, you get great results.
If I could proffer solutions when I am not directly into it, you can imagine what I would do if I were into it.
I have counselled many business people and proffered solutions to the challenges they have been facing for a long time in their businesses.
You can’t do a thing the same way and expect a different result
Innovation includes changing!
You can’t approach your anagkazo the same way and expect high attendance
You can’t run your study the same way all the time- copy n paste and expect to bless member raise leaders
Same goal
Same product
But your method must undergo changes
That’s why when some leaders go on break whether through a lost phone or something, by the time they return, they find changes…true or false?
They have to be refreshed to be updated
This is our 8th year.Check it, Central 2 was created on July 8th, 2014
Someone once told me that we are the only ministry that runs an online-like ministry using WhatsApp that remains functional for a long time.
Glory to Jesus
We remain because we are innovative!!!
It doesn’t matter if you don’t get results today, if you must keep getting results and stay on top of your career, you must be innovative.
To be innovative, there are certain QUESTIONS you are to ask yourself:1. how better can I get this done? 2. How faster can I get it done? 3. How can I achieve a better and bigger result? That is how successful people think.
Thank God for that mindset, Covid-19 would have wiped out half of the American and European population if scientists hadn’t found a faster way to invent vaccines.
It may cost them more money and time for study and research. It may cost trial and error but they are bent on finding a way.
A businessman that is not innovative would soon become outdated. Such would be run out of business sooner or later.
Same vein, a KL who is not innovative would be out of the SADOZ leadership sooner or later

3. Successful People are optimistic

They see a positive ending and that is why they can take calculative risks.
Successful people are highly hopeful.
Should I tell you something this night?
Whenever they fall, they rise again.
*Optimism is not a motivational speech but an inspirational reality.*
They didn’t develop all these attitudes after they became successful; it was those attitudes that made them successful in the first place.
It works for me, it works for our ministry. Even though we started in a room apartment, we talked big and we took bold steps!
*Successful people always see themselves as bigger than the problem.*
Successful people think as problem solvers and not as victims
They think problem-solving thoughts.
They don’t shy away from problems. To them, there is always a way out of any problem.

4.Successful people always take steps

Successful people are not thinkers and sleepers, they are thinkers and movers, as they think, they act.
They think as they move and move as they think.
If you think positively with the right mindset and not just wish, there is no way you will stay complacent.
You will always forge ahead and move ahead. Receive this very mindset in Jesus’ Name.