THE POWER OF IDEAS

THE POWER OF IDEAS

Many years ago, in a small town in the United States, a doctor climbed his horse and road to a chemist's shop. He went in through the back door. He carried in his hand an old fashioned kettle and a wooden paddle. He brought these items to the shop clerk with a sheet of paper on which was written the formula for a drink. Both of them began to bargain and eventually the clerk gave the doctor five hundred dollars for the items that he had come to sell. What the doctor sold to the clerk was worth a fortune to the young clerk but not to the doctor who gave away the items for just five hundred dollars.

The content of the kettle has been heard or drink in more places on the earth. Somehow, the young clerk added something to the kettle the paddle and the formula. That thing, I believe, is an idea. Today the content of that kettle is the greatest consumer of sugar in the world. It is sustaining sugar plantations, the workers and their families around the world. It is one of the world's greatest consumers of glass and has turned the fortune of many men around. The name of this content is coca - cola, and the name of the clerk is Asa Candler.

The same thing that the doctor placed a value of five hundred dollars on has today assumed a value that is difficult to estimate. But the difference between the doctor and the clerk was on idea. The doctor did not realise that all the while he was holding the kettle, the paddle and the formula, billions of dollars were potentially lying in his hands. But one young man caught the idea and was able to release the potential for the billions. I share this story with you to make you understand one of the basic principles of life. Before creation, this whole world and the people in it were just an impression on God's mind. Everything was sleeping quietly in an idea. When you understand, that simple foundation, you lay hold on a principle that can see you through to the fulfillment of your destiny. A great future awaits all of us, but I want to tell you that this future is waiting for you and I on the thought that God wants to transfer into your mind. Some of us have caught some ideas, some have not, but our future is sleeping quietly inside our ideas.

God did not finish creation, but only started it. He did not turn into physical reality all of the things that were real in His mind, he gave Him translate into physical reality the remaining of those things that are reality in the spiritual realm. Do you know God could have created 20 million people at same time? He could have built the skyscrapers we have around, the fastest aircraft, the biggest ship and many more things. But he left all these for us. What He said in Genesis 1:26 was to make us have the fulfillment of being Co-Creators with Him. Creation begins with an idea. Since He built us in His own image, He has made us with the capacity to produce thoughts and ideas, and the capacity to turn them into physical reality.

Ideas are more powerful that the brains that produce them because they usually outlive those brains. The day an idea is introduced into your mind is the day creation begins. Everything visible today first of all existed in the form of an idea in someone's mind, e.g Cars, Microphones, Planes and so on.
Every human being is potentially wealthy and prosperous. The poor person is one who does not have ideas because ideas are the seeds that guarantee a future harvest. A mango seed is ultimately a mango forest but this will never come into being until the mango seed is planted and it grows into a tree. This process, when consistently repeated, transforms, the mango seed into a mango forest. I want you to understand that lying within the range of the faculty of your mind is a great destiny. Take time out this week to pray and ask God to give you a winning idea.

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers ( 3 John 2) you and I will succeed. 

If any man loves not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema, Maranatha 
(1 Cor. 16:22).

By Olufemi Samson Aduwo