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Wisdom Diary on Prosperity Introduction Wisdom Diary is a collection of powerful, faith-building, success-motivating and life-transforming quotes from Dr. David O. Oyedepo. These quotes, as you meditate on them (along with the corresponding scriptures), will fortify and encourage you to rise up to a more meaningful and productive Christian life. They are words you will never forget! They are words you go to bed with, and you wake up full of electric ideas that will make a shining star out of you. They are words brewed in a hot pot of a heart full of insights and revelations, with spiritual understanding that has been proved in 27 years of adventurous Christian living, and 15 years of committed ministry. They are not words of an academic mind, No! They are words of a mind that is breathing with the intensity of the life of God, contacted through a diligent study life. They are words coming from a wealth of knowledge, gathered through excited fellowship with anointed books, and ceaseless search in the Bible—"God’s wisdom bank", as Dr. Oyedepo calls it. As you treasure these words of wisdom, your life will surely blossom into an enviable treasure on the earth. Don’t only read these words, think them, talk them and do them. They will mould your destiny.
If God enthrones you, no environment or situation can
dethrone you. — Psalm 75:6-7 Life is not designed for struggles, it is designed for fulfillment. — Jeremiah 29:11 It’s not the will of God for you to be small. — Jeremiah 30:19 Where you are is not what determines who you are; who you are is what determines where you are. — 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 Your imagination makes or mars you. — Genesis 11:6 You’ll never rise higher than your thoughts. — Mark 5:28
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What you think determines where you end. — Proverbs 23:7 When you imagine good, good comes; when you imagine evil, evil comes. — Proverbs 4:23 God’s Word renews your mind to think God’s thoughts. — Romans 12:2 The devil knows he has no access to you without your mind, so he seeks to corrupt your mind. — Job 3:25 Any day you fail to tithe your blessings, you’ve unconsciously made life tight for yourself. — Malachi 3:8-10 Your spiritual well-being will determine your material and physical well-being. — 3 John 2 Just walk with God, your enemies will walk away. — Proverbs 16:7 Where you are today is a good enough place to step out from. — Joshua 1:3 When you dodge the demand of scriptures, you miss profits. — 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Those who dodge the challenges, never get at the crown. — 1 Corinthians 9:24
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Every time you’re undoing your workmen, you’re undoing your destiny. — 1 Timothy 5:18 When you enslave your workmen, you enslave your destiny without knowing. — Ephesians 6:9 When heaven backs you up, everything bows to you. — Romans 8:31 Eat it all and lose it all. — Psalm 41:1 Where you’ve not made any input, don’t expect any output. — 2 Thessalonians 3:10 The true God is the only true source of true riches. — 1 Timothy 6:17-18 Those who worship God with their means never lack means. — 1 Chronicles 29:2-5 When you’re running after God for means, you will always run out of means. — John 4:23 Those who live for means will always lack it; but those who live for God will never lack means. — Joshua 7:20-25 Covenant sense makes a star! — Genesis 26:12-14
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Anything you will worship, God won’t let you have it. — Isaiah 42:8 The Almighty that manages the heavens and the earth cannot mismanage your little life. — Jeremiah 32:17 Get out of afflictions, step into additions! It’s your birthright. — Psalm 84:11 Until you enter into an oath of love with God, you’re not a candidate for the power to get wealth. — Deuteronomy 8:18 When your heart begins to go after God, good begins to pursue after you. — 1 Kings 3:3-14 Do not live for gold or you’ll miss God; when you miss God, you live with lack! — 1 Timothy 6:10 The windows of heaven are eternally open when you do what it takes to make them open. — Malachi 3:10 You can’t look sickly and live healthy. — Joel 3:10 God is your heavenly Father, not your heavenly banker! — Deuteronomy 26:10 The richest man that lived (Solomon) never asked for it; he just worshipped into it!
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— 1 Kings 3:4-14 You worship into God’s abundance; you don’t pray for it. — Proverbs 3:9-10 A good understanding of the covenant will free you from every tension in life. — Luke 6:38 If God will bless your bread and your water, it is because you serve Him with your bread and your water. — Exodus 23:25 If your blessing is not coming from God, it will disappear. — Proverbs 10:22 Pay your tithe so that things will stop being tight for you. — Malachi 3:8-10 No matter what blessing you stumble into, God’s portion must be preserved, or the blessing becomes a curse. — Malachi 1:6 You have! Don’t carry the look of "I don’t have." — 2 Peter 1:3 Everytime you despise a good thing, you reject it for yourself. — 2 Kings 7:1-2 Every good thing you hate, you’ll never live to share in it. — 2 Kings 7:2 When leadership is grieved against you, it causes you grief. — Romans 13:3 Wisdom diary on prosperity Page 7 When God makes you, no devil can unmake you. — Numbers 23:20 If you live in the midst of profit and you’re recording losses, you’re an odd man out. — Hebrews 4:2 It’s more dignifying to live a life that blesses, than to live a life that collects. — Acts 20:35 If you must win, you must be joyful. — Isaiah 12:3 When God empties His heart on a man, no devil can stop that man! — Numbers 23:8 When you touch God’s heart, He touches your life with favour. — Genesis 22:17 Except God be for you, nothing will work for you. — Psalm 127:1-2 When you go the way He shows you, you won’t push; you just win! — Psalm 32:8 If you’re not a happy son of God, you will never be a winning son. — Deuteronomy 28:47-48 For your voice to be heard, you cannot afford to be poor. — Ecclesiastes 9:16 Wisdom diary on prosperity Page 8 A winner does not quit, and a quitter does not win and cannot win. — 1 Samuel 4:9 His commandments are not to grieve you, but to groom you. — 1 John 5:3 There is something to do in the secret in order to shine in the open. — Matthew 6:3-4 You will never become a financial star until you engage in financial covenant exercises. — Psalm 126:5-6 Titles are mere identities, but status is an accomplishment. It is worked for. — 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 It takes covenant exercises to become a kingdom high-flyer. — Job 29:2-25 Never mind the environment; mind the instructions from heaven. — Proverbs 22:13 It takes the key of sacrifice to gain access into the realm of sweat-less success. — Psalm 126:5-6 When you reflect the marvellous light, you begin to exhibit the marvellous life. — 1 Peter 2:9-10
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You are not in lack because you are black; you are in lack because you are unconnected to the covenant. — Romans 10:12 It is your Word-position that determines your life-position. — Proverbs 13:13 When you stop considering testimonies you begin to fall. — Psalm 119:14 If you must shine, you must position yourself at a covenant angle to the Sun of Righteousness. — Malachi 4:2 If you don’t arise, you will remain in darkness. — Isaiah 60:1-2 If you reject His counsel, you will be rejected of Him. — Hosea 4:6 Until a man gets the Helper, he is still miserable. — Psalm 60:11 You don’t become acclaimed until you proclaim the Word. — Daniel 12:3 Everytime you appear in Zion, there is a ‘rainfall’. Zion is a city of blessings. — Obadiah:17 Those who serve God don’t beg bread. — Psalm 34:10 When your blessing is of God, it is irreversible.
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— Numbers 23:20 Outside the blessings of God, there is nothing called riches; everything else out there in the world is fake. — Proverbs 10:22 The true riches are the results of the blessings of God. — Proverbs 10:22 Because God is truth, His riches are true riches. — Psalm 112:3 When your due season comes, it announces itself. — Acts 10:4 The road is never closed walking with Jesus. — Ecclesiastes 9:4 It is His blessings that guarantee plenty, not our struggles. — Proverbs 10:22 When you want to go through men to rise, He makes sure you don’t rise. — Psalm 147:10-11 It is the blessings of God that make the difference, not man’s profession or expertise. — Psalm 1:1-3 Whatever can disconnect you from His blessings has disconnected you from plenty. — Job 36:11 There’s nothing you have that can compare with His blessings.
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— Proverbs 10:22 Most of the "Money bags" in the world are also "Sickness- bags". But when God enriches, He enlivens! — Exodus 23:25-26 God’s favour is superior to any connection on the earth. — Psalm 132:13-18 Financial unfaithfulness leads to financial failure. — Matthew 25:24-28 You don’t travel the devil’s track and expect to encounter God’s blessings. — Jude 11 If it’s God that makes rich, then get on the line for His riches. — Psalm 75:6-7 If you don’t want to see the people under you rise, God won’t let you rise. — Ephesians 6:9 As long as you’re spiritually resourceful, you’ll never lack material blessings. — 1 Corinthians 9:8-11 The reason many businesses are down-trodden is because the ones in charge want it all, yet will not do it all. — James 5:4 As long as you can’t do it all, don’t eat it all! — Luke 10:7
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We are not called for a life of spending; we’re called for a life of investment. — Ephesians 5:16 Anytime you lean on men, your future becomes uncertain. — Jeremiah 17:5-6 Don’t join the protestants, settle with the progressives. — Proverbs 13:20 God will direct you, instruct, rebuke and correct you, so He can position you. — Hebrews 12:6 If you’re not open-hearted, you’ll be stranded. — Proverbs 28:14 The things you seek don’t come from abroad, but from above. — James 1:17 Not every open door is God’s door; many are traps in disguise. — Proverbs 14:12 When you’re encumbered by the cares of this world, your spiritual ears go deaf. — 1 Corinthians 2:14 Do you want to see God in action? Free yourself from worries. — 1 Peter 5:7 If you’re careful for things, God won’t hear you from heaven.
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— Philippians 4:6 Every prayer you pray under worries does not go through. — James 1:6-8 Those who celebrate problems never get free from them. — 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Everytime you want a rise, get a song, and the Voice that raises men will come. — 2 Kings 3:15 The cheapest way up is to forget the past, make the best of today, and be excited about tomorrow. — Philippians 3:13