The high poverty levels of Africa are no secret. But the secret is the origins of that poverty. Or should I say the source of that poverty, or the cause of that poverty. The poverty of Africans and other poor peoples of the world lies in the gross mismanagement of their minds by a world system designed to widen the gap between the rich and the poor. The system is designed in such a way that the poor become poorer and the rich become richer. The poor people of this world make up 99% of the world population, while the rich make up 1% of the world population. The 1% area is spacious and the 99% is very crowded yet a few ever want to escape the crowded area. The only way of escaping the crowded area is winning the battlefield of the mind.
The battlefield of the mind is won through reading. There are a lot of lies that are planted in the mind of a poor person. These lies are planted from conception, when an African mother upon finding out that she is pregnant she will start cursing the child instead of speaking blessings. At birth the African mother is joined by her witch relatives who proceed to pile on curses on the new baby. African mothers raise their children with a mirage of curses, the poor child is called all sorts of bad names. The mother is extremely careless with her words, she has a terrible mismanaged mind that is conditioned to curse and not bless. This poor child is then dedicated in a poverty preaching church and is subsequently indoctrinated into a false doctrine of poverty, which is contrary to what the creator in the Bible says about that child. The creator says; be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, …. you are more than a conquerer through Christ Jesus who loves you, ….the Lord delights in your prosperity. The oppressive world system impresses that being rich is evil and that being poor is correct. This poor child is then enrolled into a school system that teaches poverty. The school system of the poor teaches that as a child you must get good grades then get a good job. A good job working for someone else. Who is that someone else that you must be working for? and why should you be working for him and not him working for you? The children who seek answers to such questions are called rebellious and are quickly whipped into line by punishment and threats of increased poverty if they fail to conform to the status quo of poverty.
I decided to go into entrepreneurship in 2015 when I was trying to understand why I was still not a millionaire after being employed for more than 10 years and earning a salary every month. I calculated my then $500usd salary by 12 months and I got $6000usd/ year then I divided that into $1000,000usd and I found that I will have to work 166 years to get to a million. So I spiritually quit my job and started a business, I was physically fired from my job 3 years later.
I started asking the question of why I was poor and why others were rich. The answer to that was that the contents of my mind were full of stuff that made me poor. I started feeding my mind with different food in order to change the contents. I started reading books, the first book I read was Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. This book made me drop out of a PHd in Development studies program (thank God for that). This book shows that Education is not related to wealth at all, but to poverty instead. I also noticed that the billionaires of our time are school drop outs; Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Jay-Z.
The second book I read was Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. This is the book I will say changed my mindset about who I was and what I needed to do to get to that million. Napoleon Hill studied rich people of his time. I started to study rich people of my time after reading Think and Grow Rich, and I discovered that they had all read Think and Grow Rich. Other than that I wanted to find out what was so different between them and me. I am still finding that out even today because learning never stops. The rich have a different mindset from the poor. They believe they can do it. They have a burning desire to succeed. They got this different mindset from reading. Warren Buffet reads two books a day. The poorest persons I know read zero books in their lifetime except school textbooks that they are forced to read to keep them poor. (if you are reading this and you are thinking I’m crazy you are one of them).
The third book I read was The Richest Man in Babylon. This book is about gold (money) and the rules of how you get it and how you treat it in order to keep it and grow it. I have since read 100’s of books including biographies of successful people. They all have one thing in common, that was once said by Strive Masiyiwa our very own Zimbabwean billionaire, “they are willing to pay the price“. The price of success is clear, its a set of rules/laws to be followed, the rich follow them and are rich and the poor refuse to follow them and they are poor.
The Bible in Joshua 1:8 says, “this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shall meditate therein day and night, ……………..shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.“. The Bible is the first book I read before the desire for millions $$$. The Bible has all the rules and regulations for success and now as I read these motivational books I am always sampling where that particular principle is in the Bible. But unfortunately most Christians are ignorant of the success principles that are in the Bible. The desire of our maker is for us; (to prosper, to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth (not babies only), to be the heads and not the tails, to lead and not follow, to have dominion, to help the poor (and not be the poor). My people perish for lack of knowledge. Do not perish for lack of knowledge and the only way to do this biblically is to seek biblical truth as opposed to doctrinal truths and the truths of man. Man can only teach you within the limits of the contents of their minds. As far as hearing from God all now can hear from God (since calvary) through our helper the Holy Spirit who is available to all that seek him.
Once you succeed in replacing the lies with the truth, you will then freely succeed. Its a matter of removing the lies from your subconscious mind and impressing the truth into your subconscious mind. By the way do read The power of the Subconscious Mind it is a great book that will teach you to use your mind wisely.
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