THE MINISTERS MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (TMMI)

*HOW TO KNOW THE INTENTION OF A NEW GUY* She wrote asking, how do I know if his intentions are real and if he'll be committed? Without thinking much I responded, 'he won't start by telling you how deep he loves you because he knows that loving a lady comes with commitment, so he'll want to know you well enough to know if he can commit himself to his love for you' he won't start by saying 'I'll marry you or I love you' he may start with 'I like you, I admire you etc.' and would be interested in listening to you deeply when you are sharing anything about yourself. He'll go behind you to ask for anything he needed clearance concerning. And as he grows in knowing you, his love for you would grow and his way of expressing it would be getting stronger and stronger. While men with real intention starts slow, most men with false intentions have already composed sweet words for your listening pleasure. Men with real intentions are not quic

Many years ago, a man made a decision that he’ll never remain poor as he’ll land a contract that’ll earn him 10, 000$. He started studying actors that earns such and would keep trying to learn from them. He’ll keep practicing how to reach the level of those actors and one day, someone noticed him acting casually with some people he had brought together on the street and you can guess the cheque he received for his role in that movie; 10,000$. If you want to walk out of poverty, make a conscious decision to be able to offer services that would worth perpetual wealth and every morning remind yourself of it by saying it to yourself. Tell yourself how good you’ll be in doing such services and confess to yourself how much you’ll be paid for it. Write it down that which you think you can offer to the society that would attract wealth to you and refer to it always. Every morning say to yourself that your handiwork would be so useful to the society that everyone would seek and desire you f

Some monkeys would climb trees and catapult themselves over a five metre high electric fence from their primate research center in Japan only to be lured back with peanuts. These monkeys are in confinement not because they want to be or they couldn't escape but because they are still slaves to their appetites. The man who is enslaved to his appetite would never escape the circle of poverty. People are poor because they are addicted to comfort, to food, to drink and to pleasure. To teach the poor man how to be rich, you must teach him how to fast, how to walk out of their comfort zones, how to resist their tastes for drinks and never allow the desire for pleasure overwhelm them Whoever is a slave to comfort and food and drinks would never be rich even if he is rich, no sooner would he fall back to poverty and lack. Wealth is the reward for only those who has walked out of their comfort zones and who knows how to resist the desire for foods and drinks Teach the poor man that

Nothing torments someone more than his thoughts; the man’s thought is his greatest weapon for breaking out of poverty. No man is richer than his thoughts. The thought that dominates the poor man manifests to him in his day to day experiences. What he thinks becomes what he says and what he says becomes his daily experiences. Men are poor because they think poor and see themselves like grasshoppers. The image they see of themselves becomes the image they portray of themselves and people relate to them base on such image. When big opportunities come to them, they won’t grasp it because in their head they don’t believe it’s theirs for the taking. When a man is limited by his thoughts, challenges would look bigger before him than opportunities. He’ll keep talking about why things are hard for him, why he can’t make it and reasons prosperity isn’t for him. To help the poor, inspire him to dream big, tell him nothing is too difficult and no challenge is too hard for him to overcome.

Few days ago I observed something amongst beggars in Abuja. While some beggars would clean and do menial jobs for money, most of the rest would depend on the generosity and kindness of passer-byes to get cash. If the poor man keeps seeing himself as a dependent, no matter the amount of monies you give him, he’ll lose them all and fall back into lack and wretchedness. The creative spirit of a man manifests when he has tasked himself with giving and not just getting. Men who think of what to give are those who grow out of the chains of poverty while men who capitalize on people’s kindness and generosity are selfish and won’t get any better in life. Men are poor because they don’t think of what to give, they only think of what to get and they want to take advantage of people’s kindness and generosity. Wealth, Ideas and opportunities come to those who think in terms of what to give to the society and the nation. Soon enough wealth would fly away from those who think solely of themsel

Lazarus desired the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, that's all he could desire. He had probably told himself that he was too handicapped to succeed in life and that affected his desires and his desires limited his destiny. If you want to help the poor, inspire him and make him dream big. Tell him that no one is too handicapped not to become wealthy. Many poor people think they are handicapped because they don't have certificates or someone who can help them get jobs, many think they are handicapped because of their health challenges or their inability to understand certain subjects, many think they are handicapped because they think they are under curse and many think that they are handicapped because they think they've been born in the wrong country, under a terrible economy and to an uncaring parent etc. Discover what makes the poor man feel he is handicapped and inspire him. Not until you can out reason the reason the poor man has accepted that s

The poor man doesn’t need money, he needs education. Many years ago a boy who just lost his job walked a great distance to see me, after I saw him having heard how long he had trekked, I wanted to really help him so I asked him what he wanted, he asked that I pray for him to get a job or begin a business after he had shared with me how he starves and how poor his shelter was. I told him to draw a business plan which he did and I raised the money for him, after a while, he had returned back to that previous state he was before he had received financial help from me. When he returned to me, he tried to accuse the devil for the failure of his business but I knew better, he wasn’t empowered mentally to handle the issues of money and on how to manage his business. The best way to truly help the poor is not to give them fish but to teach them how to fish. I gave him a hook, but I didn’t teach him how to fish therefore I was not able to truly help him. God had called us to strengthen