UNLOCKING THE POWERS OF YOUR BELIEFS (JUDE OKEY DIKE & DR GRACE L. SAMSON)

        

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INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: WHAT IS BELIEF?  8

CHAPTER TWO: HOW BELIEFS ARE FORMED    13

CHAPTER THREE: TYPES OF BELIEF SYSTEMS  25

CHAPTER FOUR: BELIEVE IN YOURSELF   31

CHAPTER FIVE:  BELIEVE IN GOD ALMIGHTY   39

CHAPTER SIX:  WHAT IS FALSE BELIEF?  48

CHAPTER SEVEN: WHAT ARE BENEFICIAL BELIEFS?  55

CHAPTER EIGHT: DANGEROUS EXPRESSIONS THAT INCAPACITATE YOU   59

CHAPTER NINE: BELIEVING IS SEEING, NOT SEEING IS BELIEVING    65

CHAPTER TEN: BELIEFS AFFECT YOUR LIFE   69

CHAPTER ELEVEN: HOW TO APPLY THE LAW OF BELIEF   90

CHAPTER TWELVE: HOW TO REPROGRAMME YOUR BELIEFS  93

CONCLUSION    96

INTRODUCTION 

Do you believe in something? The answer is a resounding yes! Even the atheist believes in something. Our beliefs rule our lives. Usually, when you board a taxi, you believe the driver is a good driver even when you have not met him before. You also believe that the vehicle will not breakdown in the middle of the road. When you enter a restaurant to eat, you believe that the food is good for human consumption. When you open up a bottle of soft drink to gulp, you believe that there is no cockroach inside it. The examples are indefinite.

One indubitable fact in life is that each of us has a set of beliefs that secretly molds and controls our lives. This set of beliefs greatly affects our daily thoughts and functioning, which consequently influences our emotions. Our emotions in turn affect our behaviours and lifestyles; our lifestyles affect our achievements and destinies. 

One can say incontrovertibly that our beliefs make us slaves throughout our lives. This is simply because our frame of beliefs becomes a set of instructions that governs our lives. It guides our destiny by determining how successful and happy we can be in life.

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Our belief patterns are like operating systems (as in computers) in our subconscious mind, which control us daily. Oftentimes, we may not be aware that we are being manipulated by our beliefs. But they help us to cognitively appraise and analyze what we perceive. Such evaluations can be positively or negatively done, depending on our individual belief systems. In other words, our interpretations of life’s phenomena depend on our beliefs. For the fact that we believe differently, we can perceive a situation as good, neutral, or bad, depending on our belief make-up.

The caveat is – beware of your beliefs! Question your beliefs. Are your beliefs life-enhancing or destructive? We shall discuss all these issues in subsequent chapters. It is heart-rending to note that negative beliefs have destroyed lives and destinies. We need to urgently recognize their effects in our lives. Consequently, we can change our lives tremendously for good if we change our beliefs.

Belief is very powerful and must be managed with a lot of circumspection. Millions of individuals all over the world have lived unfulfilled lives because of the wrong set of beliefs that they have imbibed from childhood.

This book, “Unlocking the Powers of Your Beliefs,” makes attempts to explain what belief is and how beliefs are formed. The book also encourages us to believe in ourselves.

Most importantly, it explains how beliefs affect our lives and basically how we can reprogram our beliefs for success.

In summary, reading this book will help the reader achieve the following:

·   To know the negative expressions that help form negative beliefs.

·   To discern the differences between positive and negative beliefs.

·   To know why some people are enslaved by negative beliefs throughout their lives.

·   To understand how negative or non-beneficial beliefs lead to poor performance in life.

·   To achieve success with ease, with the right kind of belief.

·   To improve success in our daily endeavours, by having belief in our abilities.

·   To believe in God Almighty who controls the universe.

·   To increase our staying power when we face difficulties.

·   To enable us to interpret the events of life in their proper perspective.

·   To tap the energy inherent in our beliefs.

 

This book is titled Unlocking The Powers of Your Beliefs because of the need to address the issue of negative beliefs prevalent in our generation. Remember what Christ said in John 14:1 - “let not your hearts be troubled. Believe God and believe in me”. 

This book is a clarion call to constructive beliefs. It will inspire billions of people not to allow their beliefs to work against them. It is a rare treasure, a pearl.

 

CHAPTER ONE: WHAT IS BELIEF?

 

“Believe something and the universe is on its way to being changed, because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?”

Diane Duane 

There are many definitions of this important term called “belief”. The Collins Dictionary defines it as “the feeling of certainty that something exists, is true or is good”. According to the Collins Dictionary, belief implies mental acceptance of something as true, even though absolute certainty may be absent.

For Wikipedia, belief is “the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case, with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty”. Another way of defining belief is that it is a mental presentation of an attitude, positively orientated towards the likelihood of something being true.

POVERTY IS A MAN: PERHAPS A WOMAN (DR GRACE L. SAMSON)

 

  

    

CHAPTER 1: ARE YOU DOMINATING?                             

  CHAPTER 2: LAZINESS OF THE MIND (MENTAL POVERTY)    

 CHAPTER 3: LAZINESS OF BODY (SLOTHFULNESS)  

CHAPTER 4: WHERE IS GOD AND WHY SHOULD YOU BELIEVE HIM FOR PROSPERITY?  

CHAPTER 5: IS POVERTY TRULY A MAN/WOMAN?      

CHAPTER 6: QUIT (TIME TO LET GO)                                     

CHAPTER 7:  HOW TO BECOME RICH (IN MIND, IN SPIRIT AND IN BODY)

CHAPTER 8: PLACE OF DESTINY IN MAKING WEALTH                                                       

CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSION                                               

ABOUT THE AUTHOR       

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“Every man to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God” (Ecclesiastes 5:19). 

So 

You are only wealthy (successful) if everything that concerns you (mind, soul, spirit, body, material possession etc.) is healthy and in good shape.

 But

 Is it possible for everyone on earth to be successful?

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As of 7 March 2021, Jeff Bezos became the richest man in the world (https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/). Which of the below is Jeff Bezos doing that you are not?

If he is not doing all, and he is still that wealthy, what is the explanation?

 

In an interview, Maye Musk (mother to Elon Musk), described her son Elon, while he was growing up, as having a surviving skill, never afraid of anything, never anxious about luxury, always seeking for solutions, and most of all, extremely generous and kind. Do you have any of these traits of his?

 

INTRODUCTION

If you are in the habit of scamming/defrauding people to make money, you are not wise. Don’t you know that the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just? (Proverbs 13:22b). 

“You are not born into a rich world just for you to live and die poor”. 

“You must attempt something, to become anything in life, otherwise, you will amount to nothing”.

 “You are not poor because you are broke; you are poor because your mind is not strong enough to abide by the creator’s laws for material or financial blessings”. 

“Everyone has equal opportunity at being mentally and financially free. Notwithstanding, not everyone has the belief system that drives the actions that lead to material, mental, or financial prosperity”. 

In all, “godliness with contentment is great gain” (1 Timothy 6:6). 

Why are you not getting ahead in life? Could it be that your destiny is holding you back from making progress in life? Moses killed an Egyptian in Exodus 2:12; however, rather than punish him, God selected him in Exodus 3:10 (even while he was a stranger, far away in Midian) to save the Israelites. So, why is your own case different? Is it that you have a bad destiny?

Read more about destiny in chapter 8. 

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 “Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain. But to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way, they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life” (1 Timothy 6:17-19 -- NIV).

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POVERTY is the presence of lack in the material (including the body), spiritual, and/or mental aspect of a person’s life. 

Money is meant to be enslaved and trained (train your money to stay calm), because it is neither a friend nor a master to anyone. 

Remember, no matter how golden, beautiful, or costly a bed may be, it can never be a guarantee that the sleeper will have sweet dreams. Similarly, no matter how wealthy a man may be, there is no guarantee of a prosperous future, perpetual good health, or even an everlasting life for him. 

People who are born rich did not plan to be born so, likewise people who are born poor. However, like beauty, wealth, is comme si, comme çà (meaning, neither good nor bad, neither here nor there). Whatever you sow, that is the ONLY thing you are permitted to reap! Therefore, just as an ugly person can become beautiful by simply using beauty products and a beautiful person can easily FADE OUT if they refuse to maintain their beauty, the same way a poor person must go an extra mile, if he/she wants to become rich, and a rich person on the other hand, must equally go an extra mile to avoid becoming poor. This is because, like beauty, wealth is highly volatile, and so, requires consistent, persistent, diligent, and deliberate plans of action to keep it rolling. 

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Thus, for you to keep achieving things that you have NEVER achieved before, you must keep doing things that you have NEVER done before. This is because nature is in enmity with stagnancy, monotony, and unproductiveness. 

So, I say, poverty is a man; perhaps a woman, because as a person lays their bed, that is how they will sleep on it.

 Remember to read the first book in the series (The Prayers that Run --TPTR). Also, make sure to read chapter 7 (how to become rich in mind, in spirit and in body) of this book, if you really want to make a change in your financial life. Find out if your destiny is what is keeping you bound in chapter 8. Then, read chapter 9 for answers to all our introductory questions.

Chapter 1: ARE YOU DOMINATING?

Let’s trek to Europe! 

Have you heard about the people who trek from some African and Asian countries down to Europe? They travel (on buses, trains, and foot) from their various communities, down to Libya, for an onward journey to any country in Europe. These people are all looking for just one thing - greener pastures. One question you might ask is, ‘what makes one land greener than the others?’ If you ask me, the closest answer to that question, of course, is nothing! Most of these trekkers never make it to their desired land (destination) of milk and honey, as the majority of them end up drowning in the Mediterranean Sea (picture below). Even when some of them do make it, they never become successful or leverage the golden opportunities in their supposed land of wealth and greener pastures. In most cases, they eventually realise that the honey they crossed seven seas, seven oceans and seven lands to look for, sometimes even flows MORE in their own rejected and abandoned communities.

 The truth is that most of these people are rather ignorant, greedy, and naive. Even if you present them with better opportunities in their home countries, they will still prefer to go to a strange land, where they can make QUICK MONEY. It is always all about making money as quickly as possible.        

Unfortunately, most of them eventually do not live up to God’s expectations for their lives. From my little experience, about 30% of them (to be fair), end up becoming delinquents, 30% become peasants or menial/unskilled workers, 30% struggle between being idle and receiving benefits and supports from their newly found home government, while the last reasonable 10% find their way back to school and continue to grow from there, until they become distinguished. This latter group of people are the only ones who have found a purpose for their lives before leaving home but didn’t get an opportunity to maximize their potential. So, when the opportunity finally came, they grabbed it with zeal and zest. The larger population of the former groups are just existing for the day; they do not care about whatever comes their way, they are highly ignorant and will never mind getting themselves involved in any kind of deal, no matter how bad, just to make MONEY.

 

What Astronauts think

 While preparing to go back to space in the Spring of 2021, European astronaut and Frenchman, Thomas Pesquet in an interview with Euronews English (Facebook), on 1st of August 2020, when asked what he enjoyed most and what he is missing most about being in space, responded in four sentences: 

Those were his words, and they are quite similar to what other astronauts do say about our beautiful home, Earth. By the way, who wouldn’t be intrigued and thrilled by the wonders and beauties of God’s creations? The stars, the sun, the moon, the universe, the planets, everything, all very beautiful to behold and relish. 

The good news is, we are shareholders to these wonders and beauties. We are heirs and beneficiaries to these benevolent provisions of our benefactor, the almighty God. The creator has created us, so that we can employ these abundances offered by our world to actualise our God-given potentials and purpose. He created us to dominate and subdue (spiritually and materially) this world and everything therein. Thus, anyone who is not living up to this set standard is not fulfilling God’s original mandate and purpose for creating man, such a person is not pleasing God.

 We are all mandated to live a life of abundance in all ramifications. We all have an equal right to God’s throne of wealth, which he has given out to us generously. That is why, money can only make you rich; for you to become wealthy and fulfilled in life, you need to fine-tune your mindset to focus ONLY on God’s set principles and standards that will enable you to achieve God’s mandate for total prosperity.

 

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According as his divine power, God has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue (2 Peter 1:3). 

If you are comfortable with living a mediocre life in any aspect, remember that nature is very strict. Anyone (no matter who they are) who fails to go an extra mile to achieve a better life, will remain in abject poverty, pain, paucity, and penury (4Ps).

Luke 12:47-48 says, “And that servant, which knew His Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes”. 

Now that you are reminded of God’s mandate for your life, how many stripes do you think you deserve? Or are you convinced that you are dominating?

  

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE?

Do you think you are dominating, conquering, and subduing right where you are? Do you think you are getting ahead in one or more aspects of life? Do you think life can be better for you right where you are, or you believe that you must walk on FOOT to the moon before anything changes? What are you doing with your life today? What are you aiming to achieve?

 

Do you know that your life is not glorifying God if you are not productive and functional?

What are you doing with your life today? Eating? Enjoying? watching movies (NETFLIXING)? playing lay music? having fun? posting beautiful pictures of yourself on social media? visiting friends, and partying? What are you alive for today? What are you using your life to do today? Is your life exalting God by manifesting his glory, or are you disparaging him with your lifestyle?

 

Just as the astronauts I mentioned earlier have rightly pointed out, EVERYTHING GOD MADE IN OUR WORLD is already perfect and beautiful. Your waking-up from sleep today will not increase the AIR humans breathe. It cannot make the SUN to shine brighter for farmers’ crops to grow faster. It cannot change the fact that we are right now in the season of SUMMER, with autumn just by the corner.

 Your “waking-up” today cannot guarantee a WARM WINTER, neither can it guarantee a FROSTY SUMMER. So, what are you awake for today? Can your “waking-up” today answer the questions in Job 38? Or have you not taken out time to ponder over the questions in that bible passage? What are you alive for today? 

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Let me tell you, God has woken you up once more today to give you another opportunity to manifest the potentials he has bestowed on you. God DID NOT in any way bring you back to life, power and thought so that you can assist any of his creations in their natural course, NO! not at all. The almighty God (the maker and owner of our lives) has brought you up today to do more exploits, more signs, and more wonders for his kingdom. He wants you to glow in his power, his glory, and his wisdom; to walk in his perfect light and never in darkness. You are alive today to be a witness to the awesomeness of our God so that the world will know Him through his riches in glory by Christ Jesus, which manifests through you. By shining forth your light for the world to see, you are set to lay yourself as an instrument of his praise and glory.

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 If you are not living your life in the light of the above purposes and standards, then you are setting yourself against God’s will, and by doing so, you are only preparing yourself a foundation for an unfulfilled life. Remember, you cannot help God to enhance or improve his ever-glowing world, which he has already made perfect from the beginning. Rather, you can only let God shine His light through you to the people of the world. If you are living in mediocrity, then ask yourself, ARE YOU REPRESENTING GOD ENOUGH IN THIS WORLD? Are you dominating the kingdoms of this world for Him? Are you manifesting the god-personality in you? Is your life glorifying God or are you just belittling the personality of God through your lifestyle? Now ask yourself this question: 

“what am I alive for today?”

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***********************************************************                  About the Author

Dr Grace L. Samson is an academician, researcher, motivational speaker, a preacher, and lover of the gospel of Christ. She obtained her doctorate degree in Advanced Computer and Informatics from the University of Huddersfield, in the United Kingdom. She is blessed with a husband and four wonderful children.

She is an academician, a researcher, a motivational speaker and above all, a lover, believer and preacher of the unquenchable and un- deniable gospel and power of Jesus Christ.