Religion is More Dangerous than the Devil.
Ignorance is not a demon; you cannot curse it out. Many of the problems in our culture is ignorance and you cannot pray your way out of a problem you behaved your way into
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Todayโs essay is inspired by Dr. Olumide Emmanuel who is in no doubt one of the worldโs leading relationship experts, motivational speaker and wealth creation agent with over three decades of transforming lives. his influence spreads across religions and secular arenas.
Religion is a collection of belief systems, cultural systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and moral values. In most theological discussions, evil is defined as any and all pain and suffering. However, religion also uses a narrow definition that says evil involves horrific acts committed by an independent moral agent.
The Devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. In Abrahamic religions, Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination".
Ignorance is not a demon; you cannot curse it out. Many of the problems in our culture is ignorance and you cannot pray your way out of a problem you behaved your way into.
So, people come to church, and they want the church leader to lay hands on them to become what they are not.
Someone cannot lay hands on you or anoint you to become a pilot. This anointing for prosperity or anything else itโs just because we live in a poor environment this is backed by the fact that 85% of Ugandans are poor.
The UN defines poverty as living below $2 per day, and extreme poverty as surviving on less than $1 a day and because of such statistics captured majority of the people on the African continent live in extreme poverty.
Religion on the other hand thrives in the midst of poverty, thatโs why many of the people that are jaguar now (wealthy class) are not going to church again, because when you are lacking, you perceive oneself to be having a loaf of time. To turn back the hands of time, in the olden days, there was no religion, and this meant the people preaching and praying style was a level equal to all. Why, it was a time of life and that is quite different from what is happening today.
Look at what is happening now, so many people come to church in order for church leaders to lay hands on them, people are praying to God to make them a millionaire. God cannot answer that prayer because God does not have money. He cannot give you what he doesnโt have. They do not spend money in Heaven, so, where will you use it? It is only here, on earth where we lend it, print and mint money and not in heaven, so while you are praying for God to give you money, He cannot give you money. But He says, I will give, I have given you power. (Citing Luke 10:19) He gives power to get to it and not wealth. You have to now use the power to create wealth.
If you have the power and you are not using it, you are a powerful poor person. This means you cannot expect or want a church head or Pastor to anoint you to be something you have not worked towards, like being anointed to become an American citizen or in skills like a pilot. And if this is true, how then can one anoint you to become rich? The statements here are in view that anything multiplied by zero equates to zero.
This does not take away the fact that the anointing is powerful, real and tangible. But once the anointing comes in contact with zero knowledge, the anointing will be suspended waiting for knowledge to catch up. Ans as such, if you come to church and the pastor says, today we are having anointing to drive a car, and successfully anointed all of you, only those with the technical skills to drive will be able to do drive. But is that anointing powerful? Yes, it is.
Anointing is supernatural, but supernatural is SUPER + NATURAL.
Which means that the super has been released, you have now to go and look for the natural in order to connect to it to produce a supernatural. The super will remain super without the all-natural and natural will remain natural without the super. That means if they anoint you to drive a car, you then have to go to the driving school and take lessons on how to drive a car and if it was supposed to you a month to learn, in three days you will be able to drive.
One question I received from one of my friends and commentator on some of my works, about prayer and wealth.
โSo, if I prayed to God to make me a millionaire and someone walked into the room and gave me twenty million and I started a business from that, is that prayer answered?โ She asked.
One thing you need to understand is this. Thank God I am expounding on this.
My replyโฆ
You see, if I give you ten million now, you are not a millionaire, you just have millions, yes. A millionaire is who you are, millions is what you have. You can understand where this was.
If you are a five million person and you receive twenty million, until that twenty million becomes five million, your brain will not work. You will waste it, you will give people who seek from you loosely, you will buy whatever you do not need because everything money will come to your level of internal atmosphere.
The more you learn is the more you earn. Your learning capacity will determine your earning capacity. And therefore, if you are a family, you will buy expensive gadgets, buy this spend money on so many not important items. While you remain with five million, of course you will say to yourself, โwhat can I do with this money?โ That is when your brain will start to work.
And on the other side of things, if you are a ten million person and I give you one million, that money to shoot straight up to ten million.
So, most of the time we are thinking of an urgent twenty thousand (20k), give me this, give me that. No.
But.
Become, this word weighs so much in todayโs world and natural realm. Read your Holy books and engage in mindful decision making. This religion I am talking about and writing about read about it. When the man (Nicodemus) came to Jesus, we are always thinking, and what must I do to hear this eternal life? Yes, focus on what must I do? And Jesus said and I must say (โExcept a man be, you must beโ citing John 3:3-16). Being is more important than doing. When you become it, you have to become rich to attract riches, you have to become wealthy to attract wealth and so, you must focus on becoming the kind of person that can be trusted with that money. You must become one who can be entrusted with those kinds of resources because there is kingdom wealth and worldly wealth.
In the kingdom, kingdom wealth is not acquired, its entrusted. He has to put trust in you before he can put wealth in your hand, in the world you can make money through Babylon and all other stuff.
By the end of the day, you shall find out what happens to the life of people who suffer from ignorance.
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