The High-Powered Christian Entrepreneur. Rotimi Ogunjobi

some of them for big-name foreign publishers. An abridged

      record of my adventure into writing books, I urge you to read in

      my literary autobiography titled Gathering the Words. I must

      mention that more than ninety percent of my books were written

      after I turned fifty, an age at which most people think their

      productive years are already behind them. I still write at least one

      book every year, living the most liberating and liberated life I

      could ever have imagined.

      Undoubtedly, creative writing will not be your liberating

      skill, primarily because you need to be an extraordinary writer to

      earn any money at all from writing books. Yours could be sports,

      or catering, music, pastoring, dressmaking, teaching, care giving

      …or whatever your conversation with God eventually places in

      your heart. How would you know you have found this liberating

      skill? If it is not something that excites you beyond the expected

      monetary rewards, you still need to keep searching.

      The title of this book may need a bit of explaining. My

      definition of a high-powered life is one that is constantly receiving

      guidance from God. My definition of a Christian is one who is

      constantly guided by the Bible and consequently of God. When

      you decided to read this book, what were your expectations? Did

      you imagine it may turn you into a high flying business owner

      jetting around the world in your private plane? Yes, the little

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      knowledge I have given here could enable you to do that, but it

      will take a great deal of work on your part to arrive at that goal.

      Becoming an entrepreneur is not always about wheeling and

      dealing and making a lot of money and I love this definition given

      by an organization known as Enterprising Oxford:

      “It is not just about starting a business or spinning out a

       company from research. It’s all a mindset or a way of thinking.

       Entrepreneurs just think and do things differently… Being an

       entrepreneur can mean knowing your industry inside out and being

       able to exploit that knowledge to create new opportunities. Being

       entrepreneurial can mean sharing ideas freely and celebrating so-

       called failures as learning and growing experiences. Being

       entrepreneurial can mean simply thinking outside the box and

       expecting the unexpected.”

      What were my reasons to again revisit a book I abandoned

      for more than eight years? I thought initially to reply that I don’t

      know the reason, but that would be quite untrue. I do, and it is

      again purely divine intervention. I offer this book as a testimony

      that all the principles I have mentioned in the book work.

      Rotimi Ogunjobi

      January 2020

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      INTRODUCTION

      

      These are difficult times indeed. Entire fortunes are being daily

      wiped out economies go deeper into turmoil. Unemployment is rife

      and many people are looking to the future with distress. But this is

      the world economy, not God’s economy – because The Maker has

      equipped each of us with the means to succeed and prosper in spite

      of whatever is the situation in the world.

      There are a few things though that we ought to get out of

      the way before you dive deeper into this book. They should help

      you determine what you may hope to expect and whether the book

      is worth reading at all.

      This is a book.

      Yes, that is correct. It is not a miracle machine; and you

      will not instantly become a successful entrepreneur, just by reading

      it. This book contains knowledge and very little else and until you

      put the knowledge to work it will remain just a book.

      This is a book about how to use proven goal-setting

      principles in tandem with sound Christian teachings to achieve life

      and financial goals. It contains material from my personal

      experience, success stories of other individuals around the world

      and also Biblical notes. Regardless, my life encounters are

      specifically mine and what has worked for me may not work for

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      you. It is my wish that you eventually look up and not to my

      experience. That is the reason for this book: guiding you to create a

      secular occupation that is powered from up above. I offer this book

      merely as a guide to assist you to navigate your way through some

      of the rough channels of life especially those concerned with the

      basic task of finding your purpose and place in the economy of

      God.

      I have been there.

      Maybe you are at this moment thinking you have seen so

      much hardship in your life and you are thinking - it is okay for him

      to write books; he doesn’t know what I am going through. ; think

      again. I can tell you right now how wrong you are. I have passed

      through it before. This book is therefore also my testimony

      This book is about rising to reclaim your place and purpose

      in life. It is a small book, not quite so filled with pages of action

      points and motivational jargon such as you have probably read in a

      dozen places and you are fed up with them. Read it quickly at first

      just to enjoy it; then come back read it all over again, much slower

      this time – to apply it.

       What you do is what you get.

      This book will have no more impact on you than you

      permit