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The Principle Of Profitless Hard Work
Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: On the front, Jesus prayed for fruit, in the middle, He bore fruit afterwards he thanked God for fruit so work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
FRUITLESS LABOUR
This disease, called profitless hard work, can also be called fruitless labour. You can describe it as the spirit of fishing and catching nothing. You can call it fighting as if one was beating the air. You can call it running with uncertainty. You can also call it slippery breakthrough, or as our local people say: “working like an elephant and eating like an ant.” A lot of people are working really hard but are getting nowhere.
When I was studying in England I knew that Nigerians were not lazy people, but if you allowed them to be lazy, they would be lazy. Somebody would wake up by 4 a.m. and went to sweep the supermarket before the customers came. He would finish that one and collect his money, and by 8 a.m. he would dress up to go to school. The school closes around 5 p.m. and by 6 p.m. he would to do another work. He would finish that and around 9 p.m. go to wash toilet somewhere else. He would sleep around 1 a.m. and by 4 a.m. wake up again. This he did everyday. So, we are not a lazy people.
A lot of people work very hard, but get nowhere. Profitless hard work! Many have spiritual holes in their hands. They are collecting blessings but one way or the other the blessings are leaking off. Some would accumulate blessings and would go and have a strange child outside. The strange child would now come inside and dismantle everything that they have built, may be by witchcraft power. This is also profitless hard work.
Many people are fishing in the ocean of life and catching nothing. A lot of people’s dream is that they are very rich, but the truth is that when they wake up they find themselves swimming in poverty. In fact, many are making progress in poverty. I remember the case of one of my teachers. They did not see him in the school one day and were looking for him. Then one pupil said, “I know where to find him. Let’s go to that place. I recognize his sandals.” And truly when they got to a church, they saw his worn-out sandals outside, and the pupil said he must be inside. When they called him outside he asked, “How do you know that I am here?” The boy said, “You have been wearing this sandal since I was in Primary one. I am now in Primary Four and I can recognize the sandal even in my dream.” This made the man worried. Please pray like this: “Every inherited poverty, die, in the name of Jesus.”
STRATEGIES OF THE SPIRIT OF PROFITLESS HARDWORK
This spirit of profitless hard work is clearly described in the Scriptures, and has the following strategies:
1. Debt: It puts people in perpetual debt.
2. Wrong investment: It causes people to invest in the wrong places.
3. Failure at the edge of breakthroughs: For example, the day your contract paper is to be signed, they will say that the M.D. is sick or that the person to co-sign it has been fired. The victim will pursue and pursue a thing and when it is about to be signed, they will say that the man who is supposed to sign it has been removed with immediate effect.
4. Poor patronage.
5. Profit starvation: To make profit becomes difficult. Somebody who did not even go to primary school is selling pure water by the street side is making profit, but the fellow who has a degree in Business Administration cannot sell anything to make progress. Many are labouring like this and the labour is going to Pharaoh. I pray that Pharaoh will not swallow your labour, in Jesus’ name.
