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The Estherpreneur is a weekly chat about doing business and life God’s way. Join your host, Edna Harding as she offers biblical strategies and practical applications to improve your mind, business, spirit, relationships, and finances. Listen along as she talks with guests on how to thrive in all areas of life. Edna is a Wife, Mother, Growth Strategist, Author, Minister, Certified Maxwell Business Consultant and Executive Coach, an accredited Master Mindset Coach, and Speaker whose message of hope, truth, and wisdom reaches people all around the world. FavorandWealth.com Estherpreneur.com
Edna Harding [00:00:03]:
Welcome to Estrepreneur, a podcast for entrepreneurs and leaders doing business and life God's way. Each week, we discuss biblical and finances. Listen along as I speak with special guests on how to thrive in all aspects of life. Hi, I'm Edna. Like many of you, I wear many hats. I'm a military wife, mother, author, certified John Maxwell business and executive coach, trainer, and founder of Favor and Wealth where we help the good guys win. So tune in as we bring on the light.
Edna Harding [00:00:46]:
Well, hello, everyone. Thank you for tuning in for another episode of the Essentrepreneur podcast. My name is Edna Harding. And in this podcast, we talk all things business and all things life God's way, specifically the kingdom way. And I know we use the word kingdom, especially a lot of Christianese terms use kingdom, but there are very few people who truly understand what the word kingdom means. And my guest today knows exactly what that is. I know by way of the spirit that this is a man of God who knows the spirit of truth. And so I'm so excited.
Edna Harding [00:01:23]:
Yes. You heard me. We actually have a guest this week. It's been a minute. I think it's been about a month since I had a guest, but I'm super excited to introduce to you, mister Sam bat bada kukut. Did I say it right?
Sam Barakigu [00:01:38]:
Yeah. You got it good. Yeah.
Edna Harding [00:01:39]:
Did I really? Okay. Yay. That's awesome. Well, Sam, before I I'm gonna do a little quick intro, but I'm gonna have him share his story, because there's something about testimony. Right? There's something about testifying from your own mouth. Right? The goodness of God and what God has done in your life. But just a really quick thing about himself. He's, he's a visionary entrepreneur.
Edna Harding [00:02:02]:
Like I mentioned, he knows the kingdom way specifically when it comes to stewarding your finances. He is the author of about my father's business, a best selling book, enslaved versus entrusted. So I definitely want to talk about that because I'm all about kingdom economics and truly understanding the difference between stewardship the world's way and stewardship God's way. There is a difference, and people think it's the same, but it's not. And, essentially, he is just doing amazing things in the kingdom of God. I'm not trying to, steal his son or someone to allow him to share his a bit about the highlights of his accomplishment, but most importantly, start off about his background and his childhood and and kinda talk about, like, what led him to where he is now?
Sam Barakigu [00:02:54]:
Well, Edna, thank you. First of all, I just wanted to say thank you for this opportunity. It's exciting to, connect with in another kingdom person that carries the same spirit. So, you know, there's there's that, you know assignment that comes alive when two spirit of God just join. So I'm glad for this opportunity and you know thank you and like Angelman as Edna mentioned my name is Sam Barakigu and I'm a serial entrepreneur. I'm a kingdom minded entrepreneur, and we'll talk more on that. My background is I grew up in India. I was born into a Pentecostal family, but I knew about God, growing up, but, not necessarily lived it out until in my late twenties or so when I started seeking the kingdom of God more than just read about it and know about it.
Sam Barakigu [00:03:46]:
I as I seek the kingdom, I didn't know what it was in the beginning, but I knew, you know, Jesus' teaching said seek first the kingdom of God and everything else shall be added to you. So I figured that's a great way to, you know, pursue life and and I'll pursue success. So, growing up in a in a Pentecostal family, I have my father was an entrepreneur. He did a lot of, you know, work in the church and outside the church, even though he was not a pastor. So, I have a, you know, faith background from family, but it took testing of the faith to truly understand, to reveal God's plan and the testimony came through those songs. So that's what I would like also to share as we talk more today about in a, my background and what God has done in my life. And, he has used in, me in the entrepreneur marketplace. So that's I'm excited to share more of that today.
Edna Harding [00:04:45]:
I know. I love that you mentioned testing. And I know for those who are listening, you don't like the word testing. Nobody likes the word testing. Testing is not a, you know, a a a feel good word. Right? Testing is something that a lot of people, talk about from time to time, but they don't really appreciate the test, right, the testing of your faith. So, be before we go into that, I know you mentioned earlier something about the difference between, like like, you know, you grew up in a church. You grew up in a, you know, a faith, but seeking the kingdom of God.
Edna Harding [00:05:26]:
Let's make that plain because I truly believe that a lot of times people misplace kingdom with religion or, like, you know, practices. Can you expand a little bit more about the kingdom? What exactly did Jesus mean when he talked about kingdom and when John the Baptist said, repent for the kingdom of heaven is here? What is kingdom?
Sam Barakigu [00:05:52]:
See, kingdom, you know, this is war again, and I love it that you mentioned the difference or the separation of the kingdom from religion. I always look back to how Jesus lived when he was on earth. Right? From his childhood onwards and he spent time in the temple and he also spent time in the marketplace. And even his disciples who walked with him three plus years did not understand his kingdom because they used to ask him what do you mean by this kingdom? Because through parables is what Jesus taught about the kingdom. Because that's a secret that only those who because the disciples asked him, why do you always speak in parables that, you know, people cannot understand fully, you know. So one of the things he mentioned is it is not for everyone, but it is to those who seek, those who pursue, those who endure, those who knock, that's when the door is open. Because thousands of people came to Jesus. Very few decided to follow him.
Sam Barakigu [00:06:52]:
Many of them came with the religious mind. Oh, he's a Masaru. He's doing miracles and I can have something that I'm missing. So many came for miracles to be fed, to be healed and all those things. Very few decided to stay and follow him. That's where when you pick up the cross and follow him, the kingdom started coming alive because it's invisible world. Mhmm. Religion is always in the visible world.
Edna Harding [00:07:19]:
Come on.
Sam Barakigu [00:07:20]:
It is a controlling spirit because there is a spirit in my book talks about the spirit of Mormon and spirit of religion. It's a very stronghold and religion even so called Christianity, if you study the history, it is started by men. God never created a religion. So Christianity is similar to Lord other religion because I grew up in India with thousands as a matter of millions of God in a photo. So everybody is seeking something because there is a void in us while we are created in the likeness and image of God. So that's where when you say kingdom, even Jesus said it's not in the doing. You cannot search for it to find where it is in the natural. It's invisible in a domain.
Sam Barakigu [00:08:03]:
That's why the two word king and domain. That's kingdom. So it's the king's domain that we are expanding. So Jesus taught that or mentioned in the prayer that he taught, the template he gave was to hollow God's name, to expand his kingdom, and to do his will here on earth as it is in heaven. So that's what Jesus brought was the kingdom. Isaiah talks about it anyway. A child is in a born, a son is given, and only shortly he bought a garment. So that's the kingdom of God that he brought, not a religion.
Sam Barakigu [00:08:39]:
So, you know, in a short way, you know, though I said it long, his kingdom is invisible in a domain of God, which is eternal and supernatural that God is trying to implement or manifest in this visible world through who subject and submit themselves to the lordship of Jesus.
Edna Harding [00:09:03]:
Oh my goodness. You said so much, and there's so many angles that I could go into, but I feel like the holy spirit wants me to talk about this particular thing. Because as you were speaking, I was reminded of Jesus when he was talking about John the Baptist. Do you remember this? And John the Baptist was, he said no man is, greater than John the Baptist who came from a woman's womb, like, as far as his prophet, but the least of the kingdom will be greater than him. Yeah. The least of the kingdom. So the least of the kingdom. And what you're what you're telling me, what I'm hearing is, like, people think they're operating in the kingdom, but they're not operating in the kingdom.
Edna Harding [00:09:48]:
We're operating it's still under the the the systems, whether if it's a lot of people only are only concerned about the systems of the world, but there's also the systems of religion. Right? The religious system, right, which if you think about it, Jesus confronted the Roman like, the Roman Empire. Right? But also the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the religious spirit. Right? And so when when when you say all this, let's let's give us can you I know this is, like, kinda rena, but can you give us an example of of of possibly things that we're thinking we're doing it? The we're seeking the kingdom, but in reality, it's religion. Does that make sense? Can you can you give an example of that to make it plain to those who maybe, you know, may not understand, like, okay. I'm I'm seeking the kingdom, but in reality, it's and and what what specifically, maybe a a couple things that they need to look for, to kinda help them understand, oh, maybe I am in deception. Maybe I am following religion and not the kingdom way.
Sam Barakigu [00:10:58]:
So this is, you know, again, I always go back to Jesus, his life and his teaching because that's where because only thing Jesus taught when you look at those read those red letters, you know, a lot of times, if only about the kingdom even after his resurrection, the forty days he was on earth, he taught only on the kingdom. It mentions in even in Acts. Right? He because that's what he brought. He didn't bring a religion like I mentioned earlier because, you know, what man lost was not a religion. It was authority in the kingdom. Because what Genesis mentioned that when God created heaven and earth and he created mankind and he gave us he created us in his likeness, in his image, that's identity, which is, you know, we can probably mention that about identity crisis. Mhmm. But what man was given was authority.
Sam Barakigu [00:11:46]:
God said let them have authority on earth to rule. That's the kingdom mandate. Right? Mhmm. To reproduce, to multiply, to replenish, to subjugate, and to dominate. Yes. Dominion is what man lost. When sin through deception, the enemy took the dominion from mankind that was given to the man over the earth. Man don't own the earth.
Sam Barakigu [00:12:10]:
He was called and given dominion and authority to steward the earth. That's what he lost. So that's what the first Adam lost that the second or the last Adam brought was the dominion or the kingdom or the authority. So authority, it's like a policeman I say, you know, you know, it could be a policewoman that stands in the middle of the road with a uniform on. Just put your hand out, a 18 wheeler will stop, you know, because it's the authority. But if it doesn't have the uniform, they will get one over. So the authority is what you wear, the righteousness of God. That's what god Jesus gave us back the righteousness that was lost, which is the authority to stand and to push back the powers of darkness.
Sam Barakigu [00:12:53]:
That's why it's invisible. So it is many a times even the Pharisees, you know, like you mentioned, they are the religious teachers. They know every law. K? They know about the prophecy and the pro and, the the law, but they were empty inside. They were just teachers who know about it but never knew the god who has given them the law. So that's where I know it is hard to explain the kingdom because if that was the case, a teacher can explain and if as you said, you could have led people to it. So but Jesus told them, you guys are teachers of the law. You don't enter the kingdom and you don't allow others to enter the kingdom.
Sam Barakigu [00:13:34]:
And he was very rude in the sense of he cursed them and said, it is better to hang a stone and be cast into the ocean. That's very raw, you know, raw and harsh, but that's what religion does. It hinders a person from entering the kingdom. Many came to Jesus, like I mentioned, but very few endured or followed him or picked up the cross to follow after him so that they have to die to the self. Religion, I always say, teaches you reformation. That means mostly behavior modification.
Edna Harding [00:14:07]:
Yes. It
Sam Barakigu [00:14:07]:
looks good externally. That's what, you know, he told about Pharisees. You are dead inside. You are a white watch. Mhmm. Looks good outwardly. Inwardly, you are dead because that's talking about the spirit. You are dead to that's what, you know, basically, separation from God or the dead spirit is what the sin is, separation.
Sam Barakigu [00:14:27]:
So Jesus was saying that it is the born again nature. That's what the visibility and the kingdom is in you. When Jesus was on earth, he said he was near you. After the resurrection, he said the kingdom is placed within you. So that's how you are able to seek the kingdom is the revelation come from within. If you're seeking externally, which is what we
Edna Harding [00:14:53]:
Come on.
Sam Barakigu [00:14:54]:
You will only find religious activities of reformation without transformation. Transformation is what opens the door to the kingdom.
Edna Harding [00:15:05]:
Come on. And this is I love everything you're saying. And as you're talking, I'm reminded where, you know, Jesus warns the people, and he says, don't look at their gifts. Look at their fruits because the fruits is speak because a lot of times, you know, and you think about there are anointed people, whether they're serving the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of light, even their people are mesmerized by their gifts. But the Lord, it it, encourages us and it basically challenges don't look at their fruits. In fact, the scripture says, he said, many will come to him, so I cast out demons in your name. I did this in your name, and he said, depart from me, you workers of iniquity, because, again, he's after
Sam Barakigu [00:15:51]:
a heart.
Edna Harding [00:15:51]:
Right? It's it's from inside of us and how how, like, he looks at our, like, our motives. Right? A lot of times and I'm I'm I'm I'm feel like the Lord wants to talk because I feel like there's gonna be some of you who who may be seeking God, but it's because you're looking for blessing. You're looking for rewards because the Bible says seek you first that kingdom of God and all the strength shall be added unto you. But is that really the right heart posture? Right? Is that really, like, what seeking the kingdom is? Is it really about us, or is it really about him? Is it about his agenda on the earth as it is in heaven? Or is it about our agenda trying to use manipulative or trying to manipulate, in our mind, trying to manipulate the outcome of our lives based on the word of God versus allowing the word of God to transform our lives again from the inside out. Now I know I feel like we went up here when we need to bring it down here a little bit because I sense the holy spirit is like, there's gonna be some. There's like, what in the world are they talking about? So let's kinda come back down a little bit. And this is not anything negative, but, you know, as for you those who you've been listening to my podcast before, it's about being sensitive to the spirit and who's listening to this right now. So you said you went from, you know, growing up in a faith to seeking the kingdom of God and really truly understand.
Edna Harding [00:17:18]:
Can you give, like, an example when when you were starting out in your journey, when you realize, woah. That's different. That's, you know, that's something kingdom. This just starts start from there and kinda give us an example where it it was it was like an epiphany, a revelation that you haven't I know I'm asking you to, like, think back, but, like, an example of when you're like, woah, that's that is a revelation from God. That is definitely not religion. Can you give an example?
Sam Barakigu [00:17:47]:
I will say, you know, there's two things. You know, one you mentioned about food. Right? Because it's the it's through by the food that shows if it is gonna be there's good food and bad food. Right? Yes. If the repentance under fruitfulness is is what God is calling us. So there are role of repentance in religion become a ritual without enough fruitfulness. So if a tree never eats its own food, it's always for others. Kingdom is always other centered.
Sam Barakigu [00:18:16]:
It's never self centered because religion is self centered. That's why your behavior modifying so that you look good. Right? But in the kingdom, it's always other centered and the food is based on your root. If your root is splinter in the good soil, you always produce good food. If it is in the bad soil or in the world system, in the system of the spirit of mama and the spirit of religion and all those behavior modification where you get your worth, net worth, and self satisfaction. It's always a religious process because there's no transformation that happens. Mhmm. Transformation is what in a because everyone who is transformed always transforms.
Sam Barakigu [00:19:02]:
Wow. Because Mhmm. That's the only way in the kingdom. Because in the kingdom, the parables always teaches you it's a process of refinement. Mhmm. The gifting, the talent, the passion, that's where you find your purpose. But that's in all of us. All of us are created with a unique gift and talent in this passage.
Sam Barakigu [00:19:21]:
But unless you refine it, always says this, as an example, like a gold. Gold is usually find under rocks and dirt. Unless you dig and remove the dirt and the rocks, you don't find the gold. But even then, it is of not much value unless it is refined through the fire. And that's where a lot of the religious system stops and say, oh, this is too much. And because the refinement is what we pray against in the religion. God remove us, remove that. Right? Because out of fear.
Sam Barakigu [00:19:51]:
That's a lot of our prayers in religions out of fear, which feeds into the demonic system and to expand the in in the kingdom of darkness. But in the kingdom, only way to please God is by faith or through faith. Without faith, you cannot please God. Mhmm. And faith, what God is looking for when he returns, the bible says. So people who are walking in faith, they are the one who will not gratify the flesh, and they are the one who are refined, and they will go to fire and valley and in the darkness, but they are walking in faith and they will feel no evil because he that is in them is greater than he that is in the world. So that's the difference also to recognize, are you walking in the kingdom in faith or are you walking in the religious system in fear and your prayer reflects that? So this is what God cannot answer a prayer in fear. Mhmm.
Sam Barakigu [00:20:48]:
Because he don't function in that because that fits into the demonic system. Devil functions out of fear because that's what energizes his system Yes. And express his kingdom. So this is specifically why Jesus always says mustard seed faith. You don't have to be a big preacher or a great saint. Mustard seed faith because the potential in a mustard seed is great. But if it is placed on a shelf, it can stay the thousand years and never produce anything.
Edna Harding [00:21:18]:
My goodness. I am like my, my spirit man is so excited to hear you say this because I feel like it's such a timely word right now. Because if you just look around, right, what's going on in the world, the status of, you know, society, like, what's on the news, there's a lot of fear that's being instilled, not just in the world, but in the body of Christ. I mean, you see it. You sense it. You know? And, and fear is captivating even so called devout Christians who's been believers for a long time. So I want you to talk about an experience that you had maybe in a wilderness season, specifically in business where you were going through that test where you felt like God was silent, in a sense where you didn't see the answers right away, if that makes sense. Like, the kind of answers that we as believers want, especially during those trying times.
Edna Harding [00:22:17]:
And how did you stay faithful? Like, what helped you get through those seasons, especially for those who may not be in the mountain top season, but they what I call the Valley Of Baca season, who may be like, how much longer, God, will it take for you to come through for me? Can you give us an experience and maybe encourage those who are in that particular season right now?
Sam Barakigu [00:22:45]:
Amen. I mean, this this is it's a beautiful scenario in the kingdom to go through the valley in a shadow of death and, you know, that is very in the natural, you know, it seems like it is dead. It's dry. It is unproductive and fruitful. But interestingly, that's when God is working in you and through you. Personally, I had, you know, I have read and, you know, studied started studying about the kingdom about thirty years ago. I'm still learning and going because that's how broad and wide and deep the love of God or the kingdom of God is. So to understand that, you have to be tested like we spoke about earlier to testify about the miracle and the power of God.
Sam Barakigu [00:23:33]:
So like Jesus, he endured cross with Job even though it was a painful process. He gives us the ability. As a businessman, you know, all twenty five years I've been doing business. I, you know, I grew up in a business family, so I was naturally I was an entrepreneur mindset ahead. But God even though I trusted God, I tithe, I gave offering, all those things, God allowed me to go through failures. And at that time, I thought, God, why are you doing this? I am being faithful. Mhmm. And I was doing religious activities, and I was broken.
Sam Barakigu [00:24:10]:
I was heartbroken. And even, you know, tempted to just walk away thinking, oh, maybe this is just all just in like any other religion. There is no truth in it because I cannot feel it. I was looking at my natural and my feelings and emotions to find god. What God, you don't find in those. Even though he has given you those things, it is what he calls you to overcome. We are called to be overcomers. Unless you face something beyond your ability, you don't need to worry about overcoming that.
Sam Barakigu [00:24:41]:
Right? So this is where God calls us to overcome things in business, at work, in family, all those things when struggles comes. I had, like I said, started many businesses. Many failures happened. In the beginning years, I thought I was a failure because of failures and but God taught me was as I was pursuing the kingdom, thankfully, his grace was sufficient for me.
Edna Harding [00:25:05]:
Come on.
Sam Barakigu [00:25:06]:
So grateful that his grace is still sufficient for me even today. Because without it, I cannot take the next step of faith because only by grace we are saved. Because all of us, once we were sinners, we were lost. We didn't just all of a sudden decide, okay, we're gonna fall. It's the grace of God that was given to me that enabled me, that opened my eyes. The religion put the veil there, still tried to keep the veil close, but Jesus through the death and burial reception tore the veil so that I'm enlightened. So through struggles, through failures, through many businesses that went down and though, you know, the devil want to make you focus on those things than the victory you had, the spirit of God, as you seek him daily, that's why you got to have the daily manna, not yesterday's manna. Lot of Oh, good.
Sam Barakigu [00:26:00]:
Even through the system we have, the knowledge is plenty. Lot of podcast, lot of information, lot of messages. People are hearing that. But the difference in faith I may want to emphasize is that it is not just the hearing of the word from my men, but it's the hearing of the word from the holy spirit that take precious faith. This is why a lot of time people hear a lot of message. It is falling by the thorns and dry ground and stolen by the enemy because it is not given by the Holy Spirit. It's only the spirit of God that can take the written word logos and reveal rhema, the revealed word that transforms you. Because if you're not transformed, like I mentioned earlier, you are not able to transform.
Sam Barakigu [00:26:41]:
And even if you try, you are just creating thorns and thistles. This is what Jesus said, I never knew you. You're creating a lot of thoughts and thistles, but it is not inspired or guided by the spirit of God. And it is just the knowledge which pops off your mind and it's not the spirit that transform that you are able to be fruitful. So this is where even though I went through those valley, I struggled there. I almost gave up, and I went through a lot of the perceived time, but his grace enabled me to walk through the fire. That refinement process, I never appreciated that. I prayed against it until God renewed me and it took me out and showed me what that season was for.
Sam Barakigu [00:27:25]:
It is for greater fruitfulness. The pruning, the refinement was for greater fruitfulness and not just for me and my family, but for others. Like I mentioned, a tree produces food always for others. And so the kingdom, the growth in us, it is not just for us to feel good and spiritual, but to expand the kingdom. That means inviting others into the kingdom to experience and taste and see that the lord is good.
Edna Harding [00:27:51]:
Okay, ma'am. We could go now with mic drop. No. Wow. I am I am like, there's so for those of you guys who are listening, I hope you are hearing by way of this spirit. There is so much truth in which Sam just said. And as as you're as you're talking, I just you know, you were you were kinda remind me how he prunes, you know, he prunes, the, the even the ones that are bearing fruit. Right? He prunes the vines.
Edna Harding [00:28:21]:
Is that right? Vines or branches or he prunes it, so that it could bear more branch bear more fruit. Right? Bear branches. Bear more fruits. So the pruning process, again, it's not it's not a, what I call it, sexy word where every everyone loves to hear about pruning and testing, and and it's all about blessing, blessing, and blessing, but that is part the scripture says that if you suffer with me like, those who suffer with Christ would reign with Christ. Right? The suffering, alright, is for his glory to be revealed in us and through us that cannot come without a price. Right? A lot of times people want the promise without the price. Right? Count the cost. Right? Are you paying the price? And it's not just from a financial standpoint, because a lot of times thank you, holy spirit.
Edna Harding [00:29:12]:
I think he wants me to talk about this. Is you think you could buy his blessing. Right? You could buy the anointing. You could buy the favor of God. Now speak to those people. Right? Okay. Because I I I know there are a lot of, what I call it, what you would call successful entrepreneurs that sent to my podcast who are doing well financially. And and they're they're in their mind, and this is for us to challenge their religious, you know, the religious thinking that, okay, I give my tithes, I give my offerings.
Edna Harding [00:29:43]:
Mhmm. You know? I I know I serve in my church. I I I am you know, this this is, you know, I'm doing my part for the kingdom. Right? How do we know if we are doing enough for the like, how do we know like like, can you like, maybe I don't know if I don't know if I'm I'm asking the right question, but I just wanna make it plain. Like, you know, we all play a part in the kingdom of God. Right? And the king the Bible says that the kingdom suffers, weight. Yeah. Suffers binds, but the violent takes it by force.
Edna Harding [00:30:14]:
How can we as believers, you know, be an arm an arm armor not armor. What do you call it? A soldier. Right? A soldier for the kingdom of God. Right? Like, how can how do we know we're doing our part? Right? Aside from, like, I know, obviously, we have the relationship, the intimacy with the Lord, you know, and everything. Like, but from doing for other standpoint, if that makes sense, can you can you maybe give an example or how or maybe make it practical for people to to kinda give them an idea like, okay. How do we make sure that the fruits isn't just for us, but the fruits for other people as well? Is that is my question making sense?
Sam Barakigu [00:30:58]:
Yeah. It is. I mean, you your question is, in a full pack to with several aspect of it. Uh-huh. So, in my book, I talk about this in the spirit of Mormon, in spirit of religion, in stewardship versus ownership, and all those things. Because we are and I talk I teach also I mentioned this also in my book about currency because American dollar, it is the in a currency that holds all the other, you know, it's every other currency is pegged to the dollar and that's what holds the dollar. Right? So you and I, we are the currency of the kingdom. This were also when Jesus told, you know, when they asked him about taxation that you give to Caesar, what is Caesar's and to God, that is God.
Sam Barakigu [00:31:36]:
We sometimes are confused. This is what identity crisis comes from. We attach our identity to the success in the marketplace through financial blessings or financial prosperity and success, but that is a trap or a deception. That's why the spirit of mammon is a deceptive spirit. The spirit of religion is a deceptive spirit. Only if you have the discernment of the holy spirit that you can recognize those things. I can teach and preach a lot of those things, but unless you seek first the kingdom and allow the holy spirit to control your life and be your counselor, these knowledge are just outward education or information. Bible talks about in the last days, knowledge is increasing so much.
Sam Barakigu [00:32:26]:
There's all kind of bible translation, all kind of messages there, but people are still walking the shallow ground. They don't have the depth because they are not allowing the holy spirit to remove those dirt and allow those passion and gifting to be refined in the fire because it's only the fire that can purify you. And only through that purification, your value increases. If you are not going or allowing god or playing against in fear from those things, then you are asking God in indirect way, I don't want your help. I want success in the marketplace. In my own terms, I will give you tithe. I will give you offering just like, you know, lot of the people do these days just as a, you know, you're putting a coin in the to get a coin. Right? It is like, in the god, I will give you tithe, bless my money.
Sam Barakigu [00:33:21]:
Money, you give tithe not for money. Old testament principle under the order of Aaron priesthood and the New Testament principle under the order of malshesia tithing is two different system. Mhmm. Religion keep on to the Old Testament system and put pressure and fear on people. If you don't tithe and offer, God's going to punish you. But in the New Testament, teachers taught you that everything belong to God, not 10%. Hundred % belongs to God. You and I, we are stewards of what he has given us, including the earth.
Sam Barakigu [00:33:54]:
Right? Be stewarded. The more and better you steward, that's also a principle of management that better and more your fruitfulness in the kingdom happen. So it is difficult in the sense of if you are pursuing the worldly path of religion and the religious spirit to do good things for God, then you will get trapped in that. That's a enslaved system compared to the interest system in the kingdom where you are content in in the sense of you're satisfied with what you have. Not in the sense of, you know, you're satisfied where you are and and but like Paul, when he was in the prison, he wrote a letter saying rejoice always because he was not allowing the prison cells to hold them captive or to take his joy away. So God gives us a joy. That's the presence of God. In the presence of God, there's fullness of joy.
Sam Barakigu [00:34:51]:
Mhmm. So regardless of you are in a prison, in a pit, or in a palace, your joy should not be attached to the things that you are doing or producing, but what is within you. So what is within you, which is the kingdom of God, that's the true value and the worth you should have instead of the net worth and the net worth you feel like you're valued. Because when that is taken away, a lot of people are struggling even to praise God because they are like, God, what are you doing? What are you, you know, allowing this to happen? While he may be refining you, you're resisting the kingdom to draw you. While others are being drawn into it who are seeking, who gave up, who is being transformed. Some of you with the religious spirit because of the deceptive nature or the luring nature of the financial success Yeah. You are giving to God from it as a religious activity, but you're never honoring God. Because in the New Testament, tithing is a worship unto him.
Sam Barakigu [00:35:51]:
It's an honor. It's not a transaction.
Edna Harding [00:35:54]:
Right. Come on.
Sam Barakigu [00:35:56]:
The tithing under the order of Aaron was a transaction for the 12 tribes of Israel. In the New Testament, you know, after Jesus, you know, said after in a John, every prophecy and law was fulfilled through Christ, and he started a new covenant in the blood. And in that, hundred portion belongs to God. God don't need our tithe to take care of things. He sends manna from heaven. This is what happened to the Israelites also. They kept abundance. Even in that abundance, their mindset was a scarcity mindset.
Sam Barakigu [00:36:27]:
So they missed the eternal rest God has in the land of Canaan where abundance was there. They were still wanting and were evaluating the worth and needs based on the bricks they were making. This is same thing happening in the marketplace for a lot of successful entrepreneurs. They're making and they are praying for success in there instead of internal, you know, satisfaction contentment of God being your abbot, the source, not the moment and the enslaved system.
Edna Harding [00:36:58]:
So good. I mean, actually, I feel like this is a great time for us to talk about your book, talk about your business, like, what you do specifically for organizations. Can you tell us a little bit about your book as far as where they can find it? Also, tell us about the services you provide, to entrepreneurs as well, and or just or just business organizations, and and tell them where they can find you.
Sam Barakigu [00:37:23]:
Yeah. About my father'sbusiness.life, that's, my website. I have a business website, but this is the book website. That's where I'm doing, you know, I when I wrote the book, you know, I thought it was just in a god's place. And now I've been studying biblical principles on finance, which in the bible talks over 2,000 scriptures over the last ten, fifteen years and trying to implement that into my life because I knew only if you live out your faith, the faith comes alive. So I've been doing that and that has transformed me and god asked me to write the book. Then after the book came out, he said you got to do a devotional because unless people meditate on it, you cannot understand the knowledge you have. Then then God said, okay.
Sam Barakigu [00:38:04]:
Now you do have a workbook because if you don't write it down like God did after he has, you know, imagined, he wrote everything about us and our business.
Edna Harding [00:38:15]:
So good. Yeah. He wrote us
Sam Barakigu [00:38:17]:
That meditation enables you to understand and then when you write it down and you it, that takes you to wisdom, which is transformation. That's what God is looking for. He's not looking for people just with information. Like I said, it puffs up your knowledge over the head. And even the devil, I say, knows more than any of us, the word of God.
Edna Harding [00:38:37]:
Right.
Sam Barakigu [00:38:37]:
But he does not have the ability to be transformed like us. So unless we put that into practice, so that's where I have the book, the devotion of the workbook, then I'm also doing a coaching because that helps people to guide them, to mentor. Like Paul, Timothy, Titus, that's a biblical, you know, aspect of mentorship, which should be having as part of the discipleship because one who discipline himself or herself through the process of meditation, prayer, studying the word, and allowing the holy spirit to take the written word logos and reveal rhema, the revelation of what god is wanting to do, what is written in the book of life about you and your business to manifest here on earth as he has returned in the heaven. So that's my process I want taking to the website, and I also offer this for individuals, for businesses, and for family offices where I'm giving legacy planning of training. If you are an individual, I take you through this process of coaching and also, you know, ordain you like God says in an apostle. This is one of my desire and passion is to take the eclature, the church, equip and empower through the five fold ministry. We send them out into the marketplace as apostles. That's means one who is sent out.
Sam Barakigu [00:39:54]:
It's not just the 12 apostles, but we all have the Yeah. Apostolic calling to be hands and feet or the kingdom of God and the righteousness of God with peace and, you know, and joy. Because that's what is missing from what this world is offering. What kingdom offers is you always find the presence of God that brings peace, that transcends all your understanding. Doesn't matter what you want. In valley, in desert, you can experience a peace that passes all you understand. That's how you become an overcomer. The overcomer don't fear nothing because you can face a bear, a lion, or a Goliath.
Sam Barakigu [00:40:33]:
It doesn't make any any difference because you are looking at his and say, you are defiling my god who is bigger than any of those things and you will not prevail because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.
Edna Harding [00:40:45]:
So good. I believe because you you have the mind of God in a sense, you know what's on his heart. What what are you seeing right now in the marketplace? Like, what do you believe the Lord is is showing you about his people? Like, maybe it's a need. Maybe it's, you know, a turn. Maybe it's a solution for them. Like, is there something that the Lord has put on your heart that's grieving him or it's heavy on him or is it's his priority right now in this particular season that we're in?
Sam Barakigu [00:41:18]:
Yes. Truly, you know, one of the reason when I wrote the book was to there was assignment that was given me with the anointing was to expose the deceptive nature of the spirit of mama because that controls all the world, spirit of mama and spirit of religion. Because of that, we are conditioned to think a certain way even the educated, same like the Pharisees, sadducees, they know the word, but they could not understand it. So only the father, when you rely on above the source instead of money, wealth, job, business, that you are deceived. So god is looking for entrepreneurs and apostles who are placed in the marketplace because these are people who are believers who goes to church, are equipped through the five fold ministry, through teaching and and bible study all those, but they are not living it out. They're just, you know, going to church receiving, but they are staying stagnant. Because of that, it is dying out. God is wanting to sow those who see in the marketplace and be an apostle that reflect the kingdom what you received on Sunday or Saturday or, you know, at at the so called eclisia church.
Sam Barakigu [00:42:28]:
He is disrupting. I'm seeing a lot of unconventional ways God is doing things.
Edna Harding [00:42:33]:
Come on.
Sam Barakigu [00:42:34]:
The same way Jesus did when he came two thousand years ago. Yes. After the whole religious system, they because of that, they were against him. Not people. The religious Right. In fact, they were the ones. So they were the highest pastors of the time. Nothing against pastor, but lot of times, that's the deception that is what is happening in the religious churches and also in the marketplaces that the children of God are not living out the power that is within them.
Sam Barakigu [00:43:01]:
Because of that, the marketplace is dying and being controlled by the spirit of Muhammad. The spirit of Muhammad is stealing the power and the wealth of the righteous or the people in the religious system. What god is wanting to use wealth to transform the marketplace, expand the kingdom, not self indulgence.
Edna Harding [00:43:21]:
But
Sam Barakigu [00:43:22]:
other send out produce food so that there's plenty food. The problem is harvest is plenty. The laborers of Come on. Or the prayers of god send righteous laborers who are focused on your kingdom to expand your kingdom. Everything else is taken care. There's an abundance in the kingdom. It is not about prosperity theory. Theory is not practical unless you put to test.
Sam Barakigu [00:43:45]:
So the kingdom, it's about test that proves the power of the kingdom. So the power of the kingdom has its own strength when you submit to it. And allow the holy spirit I'm speaking to the entrepreneurs and business leaders and successful, you may call in the marketplace, but kingdom is calling you to surrender that success to God and allow the holy spirit to make you eternally rich, not timber riches that can do in your life and your families and your relationship. He is looking for a relationship so he can surrender that same like how anointed and sanctified Abraham and sanctified his wealth. God is wanting to sanctify some of the unrighteousness that is in the marketplace so that he can make it righteous so that kingdom can expand. Because with your unrighteous wealth, no kingdom will grow because this is where you think you might be doing things for God. And when you stand before God, there's one question that he has. What did you do with what was given to you? That's a stewardship question.
Sam Barakigu [00:44:50]:
Yes. Ownership question. You and I, we are not honest. We are stewards. So that's why we don't fear based on the bank account or the success. That's not our provision comes from. That's not our satisfaction or the peace comes from. Peace that passes the understanding comes only to the anointing of the holy spirit that is in you.
Sam Barakigu [00:45:08]:
If it is not in you, you can never you always reproduce who you are.
Edna Harding [00:45:14]:
Mhmm.
Sam Barakigu [00:45:14]:
That's why we got to have that in us for us to reproduce or else you are producing that is not honoring God. And he will say, can you stand there? Good or faithful steward or wicked servant and be castled. So my desire and passion is to encourage and inspire and, you know, I'm a teacher, you know, that's my heart of passion. So sometimes I come in that passion and encouraging with love saying that, you know, God is calling business people, successful or not in the human eyes. It doesn't matter to him.
Edna Harding [00:45:46]:
Yes.
Sam Barakigu [00:45:46]:
He's looking for if you will seek him and be consistently wait on him. Rest in him. Shabbat Shalom, I always say, it's a peaceful rest. No no money. No success can give because or else you will take a lot of expensive vacation and still be tired after you come back.
Edna Harding [00:46:07]:
Come on. Mhmm.
Sam Barakigu [00:46:07]:
So is a daily, same like prayer. It's consistent and without ceasing. There's no enough in a thorns and thistles in the kingdom. In the kingdom, it's always milk and honey that nourishes you and with plentiful it's a mindset. That's where the conditioning of the spirit of mom and spirit of religion is that it has put those deceptive lies in your head that you end up believing, so it is hard for you to walk by faith. And most of the people in the religion is walking by sight. They're asking God for blessing, temporary things, that eternal riches that God is asking you to walk by faith, and he will satisfy your need even here today. Then the kingdom will expand in you first then through you so that, you know, marketplace need to be transformed.
Sam Barakigu [00:47:00]:
That's the new ecclesia God is looking for because that's what a good businessman can scale more than a regular, you know, denomination can. So this is what I feel like same way Jesus did. He was in the marketplace transforming people Yes. Justice system that god is want to transform their justice so that righteousness can prevail instead of fearing unrighteous leaders and the things that is happening in the world.
Edna Harding [00:47:30]:
Wow. So much truth right there. And as you were talking, the scripture that came to my spirit was, you know, where the Bible says, let your light shine so that he will be glorified. You know, that his name will be glorified. And a lot of believers, like you said, we we, we tend to hide our light. Right? Tend to you know, like, we're good people, but we don't wanna be vocal about our intimacy with God or or being a child of God or even, you know, our pursuit of God is like what I call, like, hidden Christians. Right? Like, undercover Christians in a sense. Right? Undercover Christians.
Edna Harding [00:48:05]:
But also, you were talking about the kingdom. And in this revelation, was it revelation? I remember specifically. I was talking about Jesus wasn't gonna come back until every nation and every tribe has heard the kingdom message. Now here's the difference. I want to point this out. Okay. For those believers who think that Jesus is coming soon and he's, we're all going to be taken to heaven and, you know, that's it. You know, it will be the end of the world.
Edna Harding [00:48:33]:
But in reality, what what what Sam was talking about was the kingdom, like the true kingdom message. And if you really think about it, a lot of nations or a lot of people have not really heard this kingdom message. And if we really truly want, and I know all of us kinda wanna go to heaven and be with our Abba father and enjoy, you know, being with Jesus all the time and, you know, and being, you know, doing king like, expanding his his kingdom on the earth as it is in heaven. Right? Like just being ruling and reigning with Christ Jesus, but we gotta do our part and we need to share the kingdom, the true kingdom message through all of the nations, whether if it's, you know, through our own businesses, whether if it's funding, you know, the kingdom message. But but I I just want but it comes from knowing the kingdom first. And so I just, you know, Sam, can you pray for everyone's listening that their eyes will be open and their ears will hear what the spirit of truth is saying, and that they will no longer be blinded by the the spirit of this world or God who cannot really discern the ways of the kingdom or the kingdom message so that they themselves will be part of, you know, the co laborers with Christ because the harvest is plenty, but the laborers are few, right? That we will labor and share the kingdom message so that Jesus could come back for not a weak bride, but a glorious bride in the name of Jesus.
Sam Barakigu [00:50:08]:
Amen. You're you know, exactly what I just said that the kingdom of God is, you know, it's invisible and lot of times people are not understanding, you know, the religious mindset teaches, okay, let's just get saved and get to heaven. No. It is the kingdom of God. It says that the new Jerusalem comes down to earth from heaven. So the ruling of the king of king is here on earth. That's why, like you mentioned in Matthew, it says, when the gospel of the kingdom of God reaches the ends of the earth, then the end will come. We know the end will when? Because it's when the gospel of the kingdom reaches the end of the every tribe, every nation, every tongue will bow before the king of king.
Sam Barakigu [00:50:47]:
That's when the kingdom will come because that's why he says only the father knows. Yes. And he's it's in motion. That's why he's calling the entrepreneurs, the business people, the leaders that he's having this passion, the desire to see. It's an unconventional way because God never does the way man thinks because this is the that's a Babylonian spirit.
Edna Harding [00:51:08]:
Yes.
Sam Barakigu [00:51:09]:
You're working your way to reach God and building your own tower thinking God. But God will demolish that, and he want us to trust in him. Trust and obey. There's no other way but to trust and obey. It's in the trusting you can rest in him. So it's in that resting you are led to obey. It's that obedience that increase your faithfulness and your fruitfulness. So I wanna pray.
Sam Barakigu [00:51:36]:
Father, I thank you. Lord, I thank you for this time. Lord, as we are communicating and speaking, I'll be I believe it is a divine moment. You are speaking your word. It's not by our action, not by our doing, but it is the doing of the lord. But as we submit to you, father, lord, I submit Edna and the audience, father, those who are listening. I pray the holy spirit will touch and penetrate, father, lord. Because as on the day of Pentecost, when the holy spirit came up from Peter, he was speaking and 3,000 came to the lord.
Sam Barakigu [00:52:13]:
And he was not a learned man. But when the spirit of God speak, it cuts to the core of their hearts, and it brings transformation. It's only the power of the holy spirit that can transform life. So we agreed together, but we go your words, if two or three share gather. We gather here. This is Eclicia. This is kingdom and your presence here, and I release it in the name of Jesus, father, lord, because in Matthew 28, all authority in the name of the father, son, and the holy spirit was given to us. So with that authority, we stand forth, girding also with the truth, follow, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness, and our foot are shot with the gospel of peace.
Sam Barakigu [00:52:53]:
So when we step into the marketplace, we will bring peace. We will bring joy that money cannot that success cannot. World will not understand, but there's an unconventional way you are expanding your eclicia, the church, the body of Christ, father, before the head comes. Lord, cleanse our body. Cleanse the marketplace through your servants. Men and women, father, who is seeking you, I pray that the mustard seed faith in many of us, father, that you will follow or plant it in a good soil. You will produce thirty, sixty, hundred follow Harvest follow. Let follow.
Sam Barakigu [00:53:27]:
Let the marketplace be flooded with your message, the gospel of the kingdom that transforms follow. It is not just through preaching and teaching, but through the spirit that we carry, then we will reproduce it in the marketplace, and it will multiply far. So I pray that for the invisible kingdom of God, let it come alive and manifest in this visible world, father, so that the kingdom of heaven that you have spoken and taught, father, that will manifest here on earth as you have planned and purposed and written in the book of life about us, our life, and our business, follow. So I pray and I speak the anointing of God that breaks the yoke of the enemy, that exposes the lies of the enemy, that he will not, the accuser, the anti decors will not prevail against us because we have a mediator, and we have a advocate in the courtroom of heaven. So we thank you, holy spirit, for counseling us because you are counsel, and a counselor is in the court system, not in a church system. So the counselor who counsels us will lead us to authority and also to accomplish the task you're giving us follow so we may be fulfill the kingdom mandate that is placed in us to reproduce, to multiply, to, father, replenish, subjugate, and dominate what you have placed us, father. According to the gifting, the talent, and the passion and the opportunity, I pray blessing and the anointing that breaks the yoke be upon every one of them who are listening. May the word of God transform so they may transform the place you have placed them upon.
Sam Barakigu [00:54:59]:
We thank you. We praise you. In Jesus' name, we pray.
Edna Harding [00:55:03]:
Amen. Wow. Wow. Wow. I know you all were blessed, and your spirit is full. And I am super excited, to be able to put his information Sam's information down so you guys could connect with him because I can tell you and mind you for those who've been listening, I'm gonna start this podcast. Five years ago. Five years ago.
Edna Harding [00:55:25]:
Oh my gosh. I bring different tests. And I'm telling you, Sam knows his stuff, and it's not just, like, the knowledge part, but the spirit of God is you feel the tangible presence of God when he speaks. And so I'm so honored to have you here to share your wisdom, your knowledge, you know, just the the encouragement from your life and just bring truth, you know, in a world that's desperately seeking for it. So, I hope you guys enjoy this. Follow him, on all his social media channels as well as I believe he's also on LinkedIn. So, yes, I got LinkedIn. So you connect with him there.
Edna Harding [00:56:06]:
But y'all shine. Keep shining. Don't be afraid to show who you are. Remember, god called you to be the salt of the earth, the light of the darkness, the city on the hill. So we need to represent all that he is in us and through us. God bless you guys. And until next time, keep shining. Take care.
Sam Barakigu [00:56:25]:
Thank you, Anna.
Edna Harding [00:56:26]:
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