The Spirit Called Money

By Efosa Ogiamien

We live in a world deeply engrossed in materialism. To keep up with the craze, people do all sorts to acquire money. What some people do for money in some cases are unspeakable.
Money is good no doubt but sadly, most men have become subservient to money which is supposed to be the servant. Unknown to most people, money is not a physical element, it is a spirit. There is a spirit called money.
This book takes you on a discourse of the subject and attempts to draw attention to an angle almost every one ignores in the acquisition, retention, preservation and multiplication of money.
It is recommended that the reader who isnt interested in the secret behind money should not read this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: Dec 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482825817

Efosa Ogiamien

Efosa Ogiamien is a graduate of Quantity surveying and holds a Post-graduate Diploma in Management. He is a member of The Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, Certified Institute of Cost management, International Facilities Management Association, and Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering. He has proven himself to be deeply insightful and able to correlate the natural with the supernatural. His personal stories is a pointer to the facts he writes about. He and his wife Peace reside in Lagos, Nigeria. This is his second published work.

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Contents

Acknowledgement

Foreword

The Spirit Called Money

Money as a Subject

Chapter 1 Definitions

Chapter 2 The General Character of Man to Money

Chapter 3 The Influence Money Exercises over Man

Chapter 4 God’s Role for Money

Chapter 5 The Spirit Called Mammon

Chapter 6 Money in the Last Days

Chapter 7 Money Can Be Gotten

Chapter 8 What Money Answers to

Chapter 9 The Concept of Luck

Chapter 10 Earn Money or Create Money?

Chapter 11 Clipping the Wings of Money

Chapter 12 The concept of I, Me, and Myself

Chapter 13 Mentorship

Chapter 14 Paper or the Creative Value?

Chapter 15 Building Blocks

Chapter 16 Quotable Quotes

To God, the richest, the wisest, the greatest, the wealthiest, the oldest, the strongest, the infinite, the holiest, the Emperor of all creation, the Lord God Almighty, the owner of the cattle on a thousand hills who knows all the animals by name and to whom belongs gold and silver and all riches in the physical and spiritual, to His son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer, who alone is the source of true riches, and to the Holy Spirit, the promised comforter and the only one who can make a man truly rich.

Acknowledgement

I ACKNOWLEDGE THE ROLE PLAYED BY peace, the best wife any man could possibly have. Thank you for giving me peace of mind. You have no comparison.

My mother, Madam Catherine Ogbonneya Ogiamien (Nee Okoronkwo; 1951–2014), who didn’t give up on me when others did—she taught me to appreciate every unit of money in my possession.

Foreword

A FTER MY FIRST READING OF the manuscript, I cannot but recall vividly the closing thoughts of Joseph J. Andrew in his novel, The Disciples ; …Every story is stolen and every writer is a thief. Every story is the amalgamation of borrowed bits of other people’s lives that the teller has absorbed like a sponge, or mopped up like a kleptomaniac cleaning lady, as he or she wanders through this messy life… . I must commend the forthrightness of the author, Efosa Ogiamien in placing a very bold caveat tactically in his opening remarks, that he was willing to sportingly brainstorm with opposing views, the opinions expressed in the book.

We must give it to Ogiamien, a wise young man, that is most willing to learn and improve, as he rides not only on his modicum of wisdom, but also on the scholarly shoulders of the elders and contemporaries, to achieve this very glaring feat. Ogiamien unarguably did creditably well, as he boldly resorted to age-long principles and wisdoms in the Bible, and other very invaluable tomes of great minds, to support his personal experiences and very apt analogies. With the quantum of information gathered and garnered by the author, and dexterously applied in his kind of easy-going fluid prose; The Spirit Called Money is a bull’s eye for those who are truly willing to learn.

God created man, and man in his own wisdom then created money, and man tragically allowed money to assume the place of God in his life. And we all know that whatever competes with God for our love and time is an idol. Even the die-hard atheists and spiritual greenhorns cannot but concede that there is something more spiritual than physical about money. And this arduous and most daunting task the author, Efosa Ogiamien set out to prove. It is my considered opinion that he left me in no doubt in marshalling out his points succinctly, to answer the question; Is Money Spiritual?

Ogiamien, a gifted natural writer simply adopts an uncomplicated style and methodology that just flows as if he was rubbing minds with a close friend, in the ambience of a setting sun around a lake. And as a practicing Christian, he resorts to the Holy Bible for over 70% of his raw materials, to tread a very familiar and reliable literary terrain. That Ogiamien is a voracious reader can be seen from the vast array of quotations from an even wider array of authoritative contemporary authors that he had researched. He leaves me in no doubt that he knew the subject quite well.

Ogiamien, took nothing for granted, as he commenced from the basic definitions of money, and the why and how of being called Mammon, and aptly graduated to the complex and controversial issues of Money Making as a game with guiding rules, and to the more intricate topic of money being the bane of everything done under the sun. Under Money Can Be Gotten; he tactically took a swipe of the so called Money Experts, who ironically tag along the popular small print caveat to prove that their counsels are not entirely fool-proof. His simple advice of To Get Money, is simply position yourself to solve problems, would give the so called experts some headache to explain away.

Efosa Ogiamien’s stance on Luck and Money, many may find controvertible. For he unequivocally posits that; riches don’t just fall on one…so luck is out of the question. He convinced me in his differentiation of Earning and Creating money. Under the topic Taming Money; he recommended the effective utilization of 3 Gs with a human face. There is no doubt the writer went beyond the call of duty to tackle some other pressing questions about money and wealth generally, that the average reader would find very helpful. The icing on the cake finally, Ogiamien’s compilation in no particular order, scores of wisdom nuggets by respected dead and living literary giants, that would come in handy for any ardent reader.

The Spirit Called Money is a very practical book; this I can authoritatively attest to. I was actually approached to do a one-line professional review of the book, but ended up doing the more detailed Foreword, for its earning power after learning from the book that money answers to Ideas, Good Investments, and Intelligent work. I wholesomely recommend The Spirit Called Money to both the studious reader and him that is reading for pleasure; for Efosa Ogiamien had let us into the secret principles of the world richest men dead and alive.

I wish you God’s speed.

Chux Onyenyeonwu

Author, The Sixth Finger

The Spirit Called Money

It’s daring and challenging to be young and poor; but never to be old and poor.

—Jane Bryant Quinn, US journalist and author

A S I PREPARED TO PUBLISH my first book, I underwent a

challenge that tested my faith in God. In my moment of despair, I had held on to God while I chewed on the words of Archbishop Benson Idahosa of blessed memory, who admonished thus:

Anytime you fall, be sure to pick something up from the ground as you get up.

I had financial problems. I asked God questions because I had no reason to lack money at the time I was to publish the book. The Archbishop’s words came to me and I asked God to show me what to pick up. In my waiting, the Lord spoke to my heart. That is how this book was birthed. He made me know why I had that lack, thus fulfilling this scripture in my life:

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Rom. 8:28)

With that lack came the idea for this book. Satan thought he had cornered me, but God outwitted him in his own game, on his own turf. Hallelujah!

In discussing the subject of money, a couple of factors come to play in the intercourse of rubbing minds together. One of the richest men in the early 1900s was called Andrew Carnegie, his last will and testament began thus:

I give and bequeath to the American people the greater part of my vast fortune, which consists of the philosophy of individual achievement, through which all of my riches were accumulated.

Mr Carnegie entrusted Napoleon