Money Won’t Make You Rich

The rich have the ‘Can do’ mindset,

but the poor rely on miracles and luck.

“Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth”

Reviewer: David Oletu (DCM)

Book Title: Money Won’t Make You Rich: God’s Principles for True Wealth, Prosperity, and Success

Book Author: Sunday Adelaja

Publisher: Golden Pen Ltd. (March 22, 2016)

Pages: 256 pages

ISBN-10: 1908040483

ISBN-13: 978-1908040480

Money Won’t Make You Rich

At first glance, the title ‘Money Won’t Make You Rich’ may raise eyebrows and prompt questions: “What then makes one rich, if not money?”

Some might assume the book discourages financial success. However, the opposite is true.

Sunday Adelaja’s thought-provoking work advocates for financial liberation, offering valuable insights on achieving prosperity.

Don’t let the title deter you.

This book offers practical guidance on making money and redefining riches beyond material wealth.

Adelaja challenges readers to rethink their relationship with money and discover true wealth.

According to the author, Many people have dreams and aspirations that are not fulfilled because of lack of money.

Many projects suffer from a lack of money. Therefore, we need money!

When people of God are empowered financially, they can easily pursue their God-given ambitions, goals, and purpose.

Sceptics may also question the author’s credibility, assuming success has disconnected him from the struggles of the common man.

But Sunday Adelaja’s journey tells a different story.

From poverty to prosperity, Adelaja’s path was paved with hardship and struggle.

Yet, through divine intervention and determination,

he broke free from the shackles of financial despair and emerged triumphant.

Adelaja’s story legitimizes his expertise, making him a compelling guide for those seeking financial freedom.

His journey from struggle to success authenticates his message: ‘Money Won’t Make You Rich’ is not just theory, but a lived experience.

In the book’s introduction, Sunday Adelaja shares his breakthrough story:

“I came from a true abject in Africa. I didn’t even have a pair of shoes to wear until I was twelve years of age.

Our family might have lived on less than a dollar a day, and I never even had or saw a toy of any kind as a child!

Instead, my body still carries the scars of injuries and wounds that I acquired while trying to make a living in the jungles of Africa.

Miraculously, less than forty years later, not only did I make my first million in dollars,

but also, I was amazingly able to do this without being involved in any active business.

Because I am a full-time pastor and itinerary speaker, I opted for passive earning, which came by, adhering to certain laws and principles of wealth creation.

More incredible, is the fact that I was able to make my first million dollars in a short span of only nine months.

In two years, I was able to prove the efficiency of those wealth creation principles,

and reproduced more than two hundred people who have a capital base of more than a million U.S. dollars each—even though they basically had nothing when I met them.

Most of them were those generally referred to as “down-and-outers”—including former drug addicts, petty traders, bandits and worse”

At this point, we get curious to know exactly how Sunday Adelaja is able to make so much money within such a short period;

and suddenly help others make wealth because it sounds too good to be true.

This may just be like some sort of motivational speaking to some people,

but we will discover more, as he offers us practical insights in the book, beyond mere motivations.

His audacious claim in the book that becoming a millionaire is not a big deal, but an easy task,

and everyone who sincerely wants to become a millionaire can become a millionaire even makes readers more curious to learn from his insights.

He firmly claims that our world can overcome poverty if we have to do so!

According to him, ignorance is the only biggest challenge of our age, and it is our biggest killer!

As earlier stated, Adelaja believes money is easy to make and this book promises to help us with the principles of making money,

However, while flipping through the pages of this book,

we should not get carried away, forgetting the major message Adelaja hopes to convey: “Money won’t make us rich, because it is not meant to do so.

Hence, in 13 insightful chapters, Sunday Adelaja shares the truth with us that will surely enable us to become financially free—

if we will only abide by the laws of money that are revealed.

More importantly to Adelaja, he doesn’t just want to set us free from poverty and lack,

but in this book, he also seeks to set us on fire to become an instrument of financial freedom to all men wherever they are.

Money Won’t Make You Rich

Below are key 20 takeaways from the book:

1. God is calling Christians all over the world to take up the challenge of conquering the mountain of finances to subdue the earth for God.
2. You are either a master over money, or you are its slave. Either you make money serve you, or you will end up serving it.
3. If money is our master, our lives will show its fruits: pride, self-centeredness, dishonesty, greed, envy, and phoniness
4. We were commanded to be fruitful. Without money, our ability to bear the kingdom’s fruit will be minimal.
5. God takes pleasure in the prosperity of His people. This gives us heaven’s backing to be prosperous for His glory.

Psalm 35:27 KJV

[27] Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: Yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
https://bible.com/bible/1/psa.35.27.KJV 

6. A Christian is a giver and abides in wealth. The blessing of the righteous exalts a city.
7. Wealth is not a miracle; it must be either earned or created.
8. Do not love money! Love God, love your family, and love friends and neighbours.
9. Pursue righteousness, contentment, and integrity.

Dedicate yourself to attaining these virtues and God will find it easier to trust you with wealth and money because your heart is right.

10. If you apply your mind, there are no obstacle you cannot overcome, no problem you cannot solve, and no goal you cannot achieve.
11. Money will always leave the hands of those who don’t put it to use and come to the hands of those who will multiply it.

For example, the man with one talent, which he didn’t use, but lost it to the man with ten talents.

12. Money comes only in response to vision because when there is vision, money moves in its direction. Vision leads to provision.

13. God does not promise that only a diligent Christian would come to wealth, but anyone willing to pay the price of diligence.
14. The rich have the ‘Can do’ mindset, but the poor rely on miracles and luck. “Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth”. (Prov. 10:4, NIV)
15. Poverty is not a state of the purse or pocket, but a state of the mind.
16. Working hard to accomplish the intentions God has for your life is what makes you truly happy.
17. Nothing is more exhausting than searching for easy ways to make a living.
18. We were created to love, so all actions counter to love cause internal conflict. No matter what someone does to you, love and forgive.
19. Money doesn’t come to good, Christians or educated people because there are millions of good, Christians and educated people all over the world who are poor.

Money comes to those who follow the principle of making wealth.

In conclusion,

Sunday Adelaja’s ‘Money Won’t Make You Rich’ is a timely and transformative guide to wealth creation, rooted in timeless biblical principles.

This book reframes our mindset, empowering us to view money as a tool for kingdom impact, not the ultimate goal.

As you read, approach with an open mind and a willingness to challenge your existing perspectives.

To break free from financial struggles, ensure that the insights and principles shared become a catalyst for action.

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Money Won’t Make You Rich