Lessons from the life of David Oyedepo

The anointing won’t do for you, what you are expected to do for yourself: he is a super anointed man no doubt. But he never took that for a license to complacency. His stance on hard work is known to all and exemplified by his own life. The man is a HARD WORKER

Revelation is good, but vision is important. He’s had great revelation much of which marks turning points in his life, but he did not build a monument on just revelation. After his eighteen hour trance, he got up and crafted a vision. He projected the future, dared the impossible and challenged status quo. His vision drove the revelation into reality.

There is no self made man: it is very easy to see him as a self made man, but the man himself knows better. If you’ve taken the time to follow him you will know he is not just a student of great men of faith like Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Oral Roberts he is an ardent follower of them. And he owes his success in part to this relationship.

Wisdom and wealth are best of friends: owning an apple product (or a car and other toys that boost our ego) will give you some class, but owning an apple stock, will make you rich. Being rich will afford you even more class. Mr. Oyedepo was not willing to just own the stocks, he owns the company! How wealthy he is, is still a case for contention. It is believed in some quarters that his wealth dwarfs Dangote's. 

It is not what you have with you, rather it is what you have in you that guarantees your success: the story is now a classic of how a younger David Oyedepo returned from the US without anything but books, and how he said to his wife: by reading these books, I will be able to created the companies that will produce the things that I should have bought. Well, time has proven him correct

Learn from the best: when he was going to commence his university projects, he read the history of the best universities in the world. Any wonders, his universities are breaking much ground in such little time.

Reading is key to greatness: he is credited with the saying: ‘leaders are readers’, and his life is proof of it. By reading he has interacted with the best minds that ever lived, and owing from that, he has created great quality of thoughts that has set him apart.

Where you are is not as important as who you are. This man lived in the same Africa we complain about, in our same Nigeria, and worst of all a town notorious for witches. But couldn't stop him in the least 

When you have the answers to the world’s questions, the world will beat a path to his door. Diplomatic and international issues are settled under his roof. Some issues of global reckoning will not be pursued until he is consulted and gives his opinion even though he is not a politician. Can you beat that?

It is not about your skin color: many people think that their black skin or being a Nigerian is a disadvantage. Think again. David Oyedepo is a black man too, and as at the last time I checked (when we had lunch together ) I saw he still had one head, two arms, two legs and 24 hours in a day.

He was not born privileged and he is not making an excuse of that. He is proof that your background cannot and should not keep your back to the ground

The list of lessons inspired by the great man Bishop David Oyedepo is inexhaustive. Please use the comment box to share lessons you’ve learnt from this great man.