An artiste should build their team like a football club. Manager = organized + emotionally intelligent. A&R = strong taste + market instinct. Engineer = obsessive about detail. Producer = understands identity, not just beats. Lawyer = protective, not desperate.
“Music Industry” and “Music Business” aren’t synonyms.
For anyone trying to monetize their art:
The industry (labels, publishers, DSPs) is optional. The business (royalties, registrations, split sheets, metadata, admin) is not.
When the prophet Elijah was suicidal and exhausted, God didn’t send a sermon. He didn’t rebuke him for a lack of faith.
God sent an angel with a snack. He let him sleep. Then he fed him again.
God treated the "dust" (the body) before He spoke to the "breath" (the spirit).
Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do today is take a nap or eat a meal.
I went back to read the resurrection accounts of Matthew and John this morning and noticed something interesting. The first words out of Jesus’ mouth after the resurrection were “go tell my brothers.” And it brought me to tears.
Matthew 28:10. Read it slowly. The stone has just rolled back. Death has just been defeated for the first time in human history. The most consequential moment in the cosmos has just occurred. And the risen King opens his mouth and calls us brothers.
But Matthew alone might not stop you.
So go to John 20:17, where he tells Mary what to tell them:
“I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”
He does not say “the Father.” He does not say “God.” He says MY Father is now YOUR Father. MY God is now YOUR God.
He rises and the first thing he does is redistribute the inheritance.
This is where most people misread the resurrection. They treat it as a power demonstration. Jesus proved he was God. Jesus showed death who was boss. And those things are true but they are not the point. The point is what he did with the power once he had it.
Because what I have learned in my few years on earth is that when men have power, the immediate instinct is to reclassify.
The people who were their peers become subordinates. The people who called you brother now call you sir. We have seen it in offices, in governments, in churches. Elevation changes vocabulary.
The higher a man rises the lonelier the pronoun “we” becomes.
Jesus rose to the highest position in the universe and his vocabulary did not change. He came back and said brothers. He said your Father. He said our God. He reclassified upward. He used his exaltation not to press us into subjects but to pull us into sons.
This is the actual consequence of the resurrection: ADOPTION. A dead savior cannot make you a son. A dead elder brother cannot bring you into the family. He had to conquer death because brothers share in each other’s life and he could not give us what he had not first secured himself.
Romans 8:29 calls him the firstborn among many brothers. Firstborn means there are others coming. You are not a spectator of his resurrection. You are its intended outcome.
The crowned King looked across the infinite chasm between his holiness and your humanity and the word he chose was not “subject.” It was not “servant.” It was not even “beloved.”
He said brother.
On the other side of death, with all authority in heaven and earth, he said brother.
So celebrate today for everything it is. Celebrate the empty tomb, celebrate the vindication of a man the world tried, condemned, and buried, and whom heaven refused to leave in the ground. Celebrate the sins that are gone and the immeasurable, uncontainable, universe-rearranging power of God on full display.
But do not miss the most beautiful thing.
He did not just cancel your debt. He gave you a name. He did not just acquit you. He adopted you. Forgiveness would have been everything. Sonship is more than everything. And he gave us both.
The risen King called us brothers. That means the Father he returned to is the Father we are returning to. That means the glory he walked into is the glory we are walking toward. That means Easter is not just the day Jesus won.
It is the day you inherited everything he won it for.
Hallelujah! He is risen.
Tithing will not repair a struggling legal practice. You may be faithful with your tithe and offerings. You support church projects. You give to ministries. You honour the portion you believe belongs to God. Yet your practice still struggles.
Files are few. Fees are irregular. Bills remain unpaid. Savings refuse to grow. So the silent question begins to form. What am I doing wrong.
The instinct is to increase spiritual effort. More giving. Longer prayers. More fasting. More declarations against financial stagnation.
But the practice does not change. The uncomfortable truth is simple. God is not the problem. The problem is often the structure of the practice.
You cannot tithe your way out of poor billing discipline. You cannot sow your way out of weak client service. You cannot fast away lack of professional reputation. You cannot pray away the absence of strategy.
Tithing is an act of obedience. Running a sound practice is a professional responsibility.
Many lawyers struggle not because God is withholding anything, but because the practice itself is poorly structured.
No clear billing system.
No defined practice area.
No deliberate client development.
No control over finances.
Yet the expectation remains that the practice will somehow flourish.
Scripture itself speaks about diligence. Proverbs 27:23 says, “Know well the condition of your flocks.”
For a lawyer, that translates into practical discipline.
Know your numbers.
Know your fees.
Know what each brief earns.
Know your expenses.
Know the value you bring to clients.
Another scripture speaks to skill. Ecclesiastes 10:10 says, “If the axe is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.”
Skill matters in law. Excellence matters. Mastery matters.
God may open doors of opportunity. But your systems determine what happens after the door opens.
Many lawyers stand under open heavens with leaking practices.
Weak structure.
Poor billing culture.
Disorganized client management.
So when opportunities appear, the results still slip away.
Faithfulness in giving is good. Professional discipline must follow.
A legal practice that honours God should reflect order, excellence, structure, and accountability.
If your ambition is to build serious wealth in the legal profession, you must first understand a simple reality. Every profession contains financial ceilings. Those ceilings often come from the structure of the work itself.
In many trades, income remains tightly tied to personal labour. A barber earns by the number of haircuts completed in a day. A plumber earns by the number of service calls handled. Skill improves reputation. Hard work increases demand. Yet income still rises slowly because time remains the main currency.
Law is different, but only when approached strategically.
A lawyer who serves high value clients, handles complex transactions, or works on cross border matters can command fees in stronger currencies. In jurisdictions like Nigeria, where the exchange rate magnifies the value of foreign currency earnings, a single brief priced in dollars can translate into substantial local income.
The lesson is practical.
Professional effort alone does not determine financial outcomes. The market you serve, the clients you attract, and the currency in which your work is priced often matter even more.
A lawyer who understands this early positions his practice differently. He moves closer to sophisticated clients, international work, and high value disputes.
That shift, more than raw effort, often determines how far financial success can go.
The final verse in the Gospel of John is truly impressive.
“Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.”
(John 21:25)
Jeremiah 1:5 sounds like a lullaby.
But it’s not, it’s a detonation.
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you”.
Before biology, before breath, before consciousness, there was knowledge. Which means you weren’t an accident of chemistry, but an execution of intent.
Every creator creates twice: first in conception, and then in construction.
Steve Jobs held the iPhone in his mind before it existed in his hand.
The Wright brothers saw flight before metal kissed sky.
God follows the same pattern. When He said before I formed you, I knew you, He wasn’t just claiming foresight. He was declaring origin. You existed first as intention in eternity, then as flesh in time.
But there’s something vital that this passage refuses to let you avoid.
Every creation answers a need.
The Wright brothers didn’t randomly bolt wings to a frame, they perceived humanity’s ache to conquer gravity.
Similarly, before God formed Jeremiah, He surveyed history and said: I need a prophet for this moment.
This is very chilling. The Infinite surveyed time and found something he decided only Jeremiah could answer.
To be clear, this is not a gap in God’s sufficiency, but a precision in His design. The word ‘need’ here isn’t about deficiency. It’s about specificity.
A Master Architect doesn’t need bricks. He needs this brick, cut to this dimension, placed in this wall. That’s what you were. That’s what you are.
You weren’t a filler. You were the answer to a divine appointment.
If God doesn’t create without purpose, then the same iron logic applies to you, you don’t exist without reason. To doubt your purpose isn’t humility. It’s a direct accusation. It accuses the Creator of carelessness.
Now there’s an ugly part to this whole thing.
Apostle Paul writes that he was “set apart before he was born” (Galatians 1:15).
Paul, who dragged believers from their homes. Who held the coats of men stoning Stephen. Who, by his own admission, breathed threats and murder against the church.
God didn’t choose him despite the violence. He chose him knowing it was coming.
The Damascus road wasn’t Plan B. It was always the design.
Every arrest warrant Paul signed became part of the testimony that would shake the Roman Empire.
This is the most confrontational dimension of sovereignty, it doesn’t erase our failures. It fully incorporates them.
This means your worst chapter isn’t a footnote that God is trying to recover from. It’s a chapter He already read, before you lived it, and wrote into the architecture of something you can’t yet see.
Psalm 139 says it plain, “in Your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them”.
Even the seasons you call confusion remain within His choreography.
You were not an accident. You were imagined, named, and set in motion by a mind that operates outside of time.
The God who chose Paul before Damascus, knowing exactly what Damascus would require, chose you with the same foreknowledge.
And this God doesn’t revise what He authors.
He finishes it.
“The white man wrote the Bible.”
The Bible was written by ancient Hebrews and first-century Jews living in the Near East, over the course of 15 centuries before the end of the first century in Common Era not by Europeans.
Moses was not European. Isaiah was not European. Paul was a Jewish rabbi trained under Gamaliel. The Gospels emerged from a Jewish messianic movement inside the Roman Empire.
Christianity began in the soil of Israel, not in the courts of Europe. Long before Northern Europe converted, the gospel had already flourished in Africa, in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Carthage.
African bishops defended Nicene orthodoxy centuries before colonialism existed. Historically, the claim collapses under the weight of geography, language, and early church history.
“The Bible was written to make us submit.”
The central narrative of Scripture is not subjugation but liberation. The defining Old Testament event is the Exodus, God delivering slaves from imperial oppression. The prophets confronted kings, rebuked injustice, and denounced exploitation.
When Jesus announced His mission, He read Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me… to proclaim liberty to the captives” (Luke 4:18). The early Christians were persecuted precisely because they refused to declare Caesar as Lord.
“Jesus is Lord” was not a slogan of submission to empire; it was a defiant theological claim that undermined it. Yes, Scripture teaches respect for governing authorities (Romans 13), but it also teaches that rulers are accountable to God and that obedience to God comes first (Acts 5:29).
The Bible calls for moral order under God, not racial or imperial servitude.
“Christianity is a social construct.”
Christianity certainly exists within history, but its origin claim is revelation, not invention. The faith centers on the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:3��8). The apostles did not gain power from this message; they lost status, suffered persecution, and many were executed.
Social constructs are typically engineered by elites to consolidate control. The early church had no political leverage, no army, no empire, only proclamation and martyrdom. If Christianity were fabricated for dominance, it was an extraordinarily ineffective strategy for its first three centuries.
The colonial argument beneath the statement.
European empires did abuse Christianity. That is historically undeniable. Scripture itself condemns those who use God’s name to exploit others (Ezekiel 34; 2 Peter 2:1–3). But abuse of revelation does not nullify revelation.
The fact that some colonizers twisted the Bible does not mean they authored it. We see historically that:-
- The same Bible used by slaveholders was also used by abolitionists.
- The Exodus narrative fueled freedom movements.
- The doctrine that every human bears the image of God (Genesis 1:26–27) became the moral foundation for human dignity arguments worldwide.
The corruption of a truth does not erase its origin.
The irony of the claim.
If Christianity were merely a European control mechanism, it would be declining where Europeans dominate and thriving where power structures need reinforcement. Instead, Europe is now largely secular, while Christianity is exploding in Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia. The faith has moved southward and eastward, back toward its ancient geographic roots. This is not the pattern of a racial ideology; it is the pattern of a trans-cultural gospel.
Scripture’s own internal witness.
The Bible consistently resists ethnic monopoly. God tells Abraham that all nations will be blessed through his seed (Genesis 12:3).
- The prophets envision worshippers from every tribe and tongue (Isaiah 2:2–4).
- Pentecost reverses Babel by affirming linguistic and ethnic diversity (Acts 2).
- The climax of Scripture is not one race ruling others, but a redeemed multitude from every nation worshipping the Lamb (Revelation 7:9).
Christianity’s trajectory is global inclusion, not racial hierarchy.
The theological core.
At its heart, Christianity proclaims that God entered history in Jesus Christ, bore human sin, and rose from the dead to reconcile humanity to Himself (2 Corinthians 5:19–21). That claim stands or falls on historical resurrection, not on colonial politics. If Christ is risen, Christianity is divine revelation. If He is not, it collapses (1 Corinthians 15:14).
The statement reflects a tactics of misinformation from woke liberals who have made themselves enemies of the cross using colonialism as an excuse, but it misidentifies the source of the problem. Empires abused the teachings of Christianity at times; but Christianity did not originate from these empires.
The gospel predates colonialism, transcends race, confronts injustice, and judges every culture — African, European, or otherwise — under the authority of Christ.
The real question is whether the God who revealed Himself in Israel and in Jesus Christ has spoken.
And that question must be answered not by sociology alone, but by history, Scripture, and the empty tomb.
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