IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW SOMEONE WHO KNOWS IT WILL RULE OVER YOU.
WHEN YOUR HEAD IS EMPTY, YOUR BEAUTY AND YOUR HANDSOMENESS IS USELESS.
IF YOU DON’T USE YOUR MIND YOU ARE USELESS TO THE SOCIETY. AN UNDEVELOPED MIND IS A DISASTER.
WE ARE CREATED TO CREATE. GOD WANTS YOU TO BE CREATIVE THAT IS WHY HE DIDN’T FINISH CREATING EVERYTHING FROM THE BEGINNING
THE THINGS OF LIFE ARE DIVINELY CODED, WAITING FOR YOU TO EXPLORE THEM THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT
- Pastor David Ibiyeomie at UPSURGE: The end of Normal, Day 2 Evening Session
The theme of this convention is UPSURGE and I will be sharing with you on THE POWER OF MIND DEVELOPMENT.
Psalms 37:19 (NLT)
- I prophesy to you that no matter what the world is going through, you will never see shame in the name of Jesus.
God wants you and I to develop our minds because every man’s life is a result of what he thinks. God the Father is a thinking God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit have a mind and each of them performed exploits on earth. He created you and I in His own image. If we are made in the image of God, our minds should operate at the level of His mind. The greatest gift God gave man is a mind. Each of us as children of God, He has given us a sound mind so that we can make things happen (2 Timothy 1:7). He has given each of us a gift of our minds but that you have a gift does not mean you will use it. I can give you a car, it does not mean you know how to drive. If you don’t know how to drive, you will be looking at the car and it’s of no use until somebody drives it. Church Gist. You have a mind that can produce but until that mind is put to use, you can’t produce maximally. If you must have an upsurge, the mind has a role to play. That is why in any society mad people are not counted in census because the madman has everything in him but the mind is off. They will count a man in a wheelchair who is handicapped but they will not count a mad man. What that means is that if you don’t use your mind you are useless to the society. You have to think higher. If I want to go from this level to that level I have to improve my thinking. I cannot be thinking at School SAT level and be expecting to solve a problem at graduate level. I can’t be thinking at BSc level and except to solve a problem at Ph.D. level. If I have to reach a PhD. Level my thinking has to also upgrade to that level.
The mind can analyze things, store information, reasoning is a function of the mind that is why God said “come let us reason together”. You have my kind of mind, put it to use and prisons will end.
- I pray that as you use your mind it will make you come out of every prison of life in the name of Jesus.
The mind is that powerful for you to have an Upsurge and people neglect it. People fast, people pray, people rub good creams but they don’t develop their minds. An undeveloped mind is a disaster.
How do I develop my mind? It’s not something you wish, it’s something you consciously make happen. If you want your mind to be developed:
- You must acquire knowledge.
You have to acquire knowledge to expand your mind. The mind has no limit, the brain has size but the mind has no limit, it is elastic. The more I shift the more the mind goes. The defining line between a failure and the success is how they used their mind. The defining line between the mediocre and the man at the top is the way they use their mind. The difference between the advanced countries and the developing countries is how they utilize their mind. The developed nations have consciously developed their minds and the underdeveloped nations have consciously not developed their minds. You will remain a slave of those who have developed their minds. A wise man said “share all the money equally among all men and in one year it will go back to those who have developed their minds”. Church Gist. Never stop learning new things if your mind must be developed. Update your mind to upgrade your life. If you don’t know what you need to know someone who knows it will rule over you. That is why those who know what others don’t know are always ahead of those who think they know. Feed your mind with quality information, nothing changes until your mind changes. Be very voracious in knowledge. Seek to know something that somebody else does not know.
2 Timothy 4:13, 2 Timothy 2:15
If you are not ready to invest in knowledge then you are useless. Never invest in clothes more than you invest in your mind. The greatest investment should go where your mind is developed. Me that is talking to you I spend millions on materials to develop my mind. One time I wanted to acquire knowledge on how to read fast and I spent millions just to acquire knowledge on how to read because I can’t be stock piling books and not read them. I wanted to read very fast. Stop playing with your destiny and start investing in your mind. Your life will not go forward until you improve your mind with knowledge. Allowing your mind to lie dormant will make your life look like a dummy. Church Gist. Reading makes you to be informed. Investing in your hair more than you invest in your head makes you look stupid. I saw a quotation in a book that is taken from Proverbs 11:22, Message Translation: “Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful face on an empty head”. A woman that invests in her hair more than she invests in her mind is a pretty foolish woman. A young man that invest more on his stomach than he invests in his mind is going nowhere, he has no future. He might be tall but he has no height. When your head is empty, your beauty and your handsomeness is useless.
- You will go up from today, no force in hell will keep you down.
- Be a think tank
God is a thinker, until you are a thinker life will not be thick. If you are sinking watch what you are thinking. Many of us want an upsurge but we keep thinking negative things. The mind is for thinking, the elasticity of the mind is determined by the rigorous mental exercise you subject it to. Your mind will never develop if you don’t think. The prodigal son came out of poverty, not through prayer, not through fasting, but through his mental capacity of thinking. You can’t come out of poverty by prayer and fasting, you only come out of poverty by thinking. You must engage in solution driven thinking. Not thinking problems, thinking solutions.
Philippians 4:8
Think great thoughts and then life will become great. If your life must do well then think well. There is no limit anywhere except the limits we have placed on our minds. Do you know what God said to Abraham in Genesis 13, 14 and 15 “from where you are look northward, southward, eastward and westward as far as your eyes can see I will give it to you. As far as your eyes can see in the Bible, it is yours. Anything you see from the word of God and you think in line with that word no demon can stop you. God said “that which they have imagined to do, nothing can be restrained from them” (Genesis 11:6). If you can imagine it, you can do it. Most solutions have come in the process of thinking. Church Gist. God wants us to think, the Bible says “God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above what we can ask or think. What you ask in prayer He answers, what you think He answers. Think imaginatively. Don’t think problem, think solutions. Go off that kind of thinking, dwell on the strength of solution when you are thinking. If you can think life will get better. If you want an upsurge, be a thinker. Only thinkers rule the world in every field. Ideas are born in the place of great thinking, thinking is a process of moving the mind to achieve great results. If you don’t like the present situation of your life now, then change the way of your thinking. If you know how to think, you can get a job but if you know why you should think you will always be the boss. Great thinkers are problem solvers.
Proverbs 4:23 (GNT)
Your predominant thought shapes your life.
- Keep the Right Company
Every company determines whether you go up or come down. No association leaves you neutral, rub your mind with great minds. Many of us we want to be eagles but we are hanging around vultures. Iron sharpeneth iron, God is the greatest mind hang around God with his word. Until you rub your mind with His word you can’t think like God. Church Gist. Not everyone at the airport is travelling, who you follow determines what follows you. The company you keep determines what accompanies you. Always associate with smart minds. Daniel for instance, when he had a problem he went to Shedrack, Meshach and Abednego, he didn’t go to the astrologers and magicians. Who are your friends, when you keep company with mediocre people you will become mediocre. If you associate with people going nowhere you too will go nowhere.
Association doesn’t mean you have to be present physically with them. You can read their books, get their materials and that is the way to rub your mind. If you want to fly as an eagle then stay with eagles. If you want to go forward, not everybody should be your friend. Proverbs 13:20. Association is very powerful, look at your Pastor, Pastor K.K. his association with me shifted him. Our association with Oyedepo shifted me. If you go to an airport and stay with someone who is not travelling you will miss your flight. Not everyone in church should be your friend. When right people meet you, right things happen. When wrong people come into your life wrong things start happening.
- The Power of Creativity
Nobody can go up if you are not creative. Creativity is having the ability to use your mind to develop new ideas, it is engaging your mind in productive thinking to bring about things that were not in existent before. It is breaking out of thinking the traditional way and norm to bring about new things. Church Gist. Creativity means the Holy Spirit stirring up your mind to be able to get results. It is becoming a solution to problems through your mental revolution. Creativity is seeing what others are not seeing. We are created to create. God wants you and I to be creative that is why God will never finish a product for man. To give you upsurge He created tree for you to get furniture. He gives you sand for you to get glass. He gives you water for you to get minerals to drink. He gives you orange tree for you to get orange juice. The list is endless.
If you want an upsurge become creative. Don’t find the easy way of becoming a Yahoo boy. That is not the easy way out. Use your mind to produce, it is your brain that determines your gain. Every product around you and on your body is someone’s creativity. Creativity is the activity of the mind.
- I pray the creative force of God that is in you will come alive.
How can I become creative?
- If I want to be creative, I must constantly relate with the Holy Spirit. I will stir my mind with Him. He is the chief custodian of innovation and creativity. He is the person behind all that happened in creation.
Psalms 104:3
What internet cannot give to me, the Holy Ghost will give to me. Church Gist. When I am connected to the Spirit, there are things that no mortal man can teach you that He can teach you. Always ask Him to help you.
- I pray that today you will consult Him.
The things of life are divinely coded, waiting for you to explore them through the Holy Spirit. Look at the man Jacob, he was able to beat Laban through some strange ideas from the Holy Ghost. Joseph was able to preserve food in Egypt through an inspired idea by the Holy Ghost. Abraham was able to bring water from dry ground through the idea from the Holy Ghost. If you have an idea from the Holy Ghost you will never be stranded in life. Always consult him.
- Always look for a problem to solve
Solve problems, the world is full of problems. The more problems you solve the more money you make. When you task your mind with responsibility to proper solution, it will attract ideas and when ideas come solutions are birthed and money comes. Until you task your mind, you can never be creative to produce. Every problem has potential solution if you can only task your mind. If there was no Goliath, there won’t have been a King David. The problem of Goliath was there to give birth to a King David. That problem you are afraid of is there to give birth to your greatness. - Be innovative
Seek to contribute new ideas and methods that will improve the quality of what is existing. Innovation is simply giving to the world something better than what you met. If you leave any job given to you the same way you took it, you are not better than a robot. Church Gist. When you look at a product think of how to improve it. When you look at services, think about how to improve the services. That’s creativity. Ideas will make you but creativity and innovation will take you to another level.
Micah 2:10
The good thing about life is that innovative and creative people don’t stay in one place. Life is designed for improvement. Creative people move from one level to another. Creative people will take the same song another person sang and sing it in a better way. Creative people don’t leave any assignment the way they gave it to them. Always improve. Learn to do things better what ever you met and life will always be good to you.
Benefits of Developing your mind
- You become a man of high demand.
That’s why the whole world is travelling to America, they have developed their mind. When you develop yourself people travel to you. There was a time everyone was going to U.K. now people are going to America. Before nobody goes to China but now everyone goes to China. If you develop yourself men will sought for you. - No economy can put you down
Look at Jacob, Joseph, David, Daniel economy never affected them. - You will be a man of wealth
Joseph commanded wealth because he developed his mind. Church Gist. Pharaoh said Joseph you have developed yourself more that everyone take over Egypt.
- They will tell you to take over wealth in the name of Jesus.
- You are not afraid of hard times.
When people are saying there is a casting down you will be saying there is a lifting up. There is always room for a man who has developed his mind.
Proverbs 18:16
- You will enjoy distinction wherever you are found.
Daniel 6:3 (AMP) - God keeps lifting you
- You enjoy continuous progress
- You become a man of exploits
When your mind is developed, you meet people of influence (Proverbs 22:29). The World is looking for people who have developed their minds to take charge. If you can think enough, what you have is enough.
- Receive grace to put all I have said now to practice.
Put your mind to work for the world to mind you.
- As you begin to task your mind to produce results the Holy Ghost helps you in the name of Jesus.
- Every sick I pronounce you whole in the name of Jesus.
Remember you can’t go further than your mind can carry you. God bless you.
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