1. Empowering the Hopeless With Excellence

2. ISAIAH 58:6
This is the kind of fasting I have chosen: Loosen the chains of wickedness, untie the straps of the yoke, let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke.

3. UNTIE THE STRAPS OF THE YOKE LET THE OPPRESSED GO FREE
4 KEYS
LOOSEN THE CHAINS
UNTIE THE STRAPS OF THE YOKE
LET THE OPPRESSED GO FREE
BREAK EVERY YOKE

4. LOOSEN THE CHAINS - MIRROR
WHY AM I POOR?
MIRROR IT – THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
THE WAY WE WORK
THE WAY WE BEHAVE
THE WAY WE THINK
THE WAY WE THINK
Poor work ethic?
Always late?
Bad attitude?
Lazy?
Poor communication?
Alcohol?
No ownership?
No saving / no budget / no plan? Impulse buying?
Unprofessional behavior at work?
THE WAY WE BELIEVE
Parents tell us we are useless – we believe it?
Culture – speak to the Spirits of the dead. My culture is my god Leave my culture alone!!
Poor values – take the bribe?

5. UNTIE CHORDS / STRAPS OF THE YOKE
TRADITIONS OF MEN
Belief Systems – expose the lies
Separate culture and belief
Parents
Mindsets:
- Poverty Mindset
- Entitlement
- Secular WV
- Lack of Excellence

6. HOW CAN I CHANGE – BE SET FREE
JESUS
THEN EMPOWER!!
Work with excellence
Planning finances and life - Having control over your spending
Hope
Caring for your neighbour - Loving people
Biblical Worldview
Skills
Business school
HOPE – 83% OF OUR STUDENTS BELIEVE THERE ARE NO PROSPECTS FOR THEM SIT AT HOME – UP TO 5 OR 10 YEARS – AFTER 73% ACTIVE
WORK WITH EXCELLENCE
Honor your boss
Make yourself valuable
Owner vs worker
FINANCES
Control your impulse buying
Have a savings plan in place to create wealth
POVERTY MINDSET
Do I have it
Do I believe that id my parents are poor I will be too?
If I don’t have a plan, then yes, I do have it!!
AM I ENTITLED?
- Well, am a I waiting?

7. Holy Spirit and His Power Link them with Opportunities Wisdom
BREAK THE YOKE
4 ways we do it:
Point people to God
Holy Spirit and His Power
Link them with Opportunities
Wisdom

8. BREAK THE YOKE – POINT TO GOD
POINT PEOPLE TO GOD TO LIVE VICTORIOUSLY
GOD
CHANGED WORLDVIEW
JOBS AND BUSINESS
LIVING DIFFERENTLY
RENEWED MIND

9. BREAK YOKE - HOLY SPIRIT
1 Corinthians 2:10-12  (CEV)
God’s Spirit has shown you everything. His Spirit finds out everything, even what is deep in the mind of God. 11 
You are the only one who knows what is in your own mind, and God’s Spirit is the only one who knows what is in God’s mind. 12 
But God has given us his Spirit.
That’s why we don’t think the same way that the people of this world think.
Acts 1:8
But the Holy Spirit will come upon you and give you POWER!!.
DISCIPLED INTO THINKING DIFFERENTLY
But GOD I Father, Son and Holy Spirit
So need the POWER of the Holy Spirit to BREAK THE YOKE

10. BREAK YOKE - WISDOM
WISDOM is the ability to govern what the Lord has given us and to bring it to its full potential - Discipleship.
THROUGH DISCIPLESHIP

11. BREAK YOKE – LINK WITH OPPORTUNITIES
THINK DIFFERENTLY
ACT DIFFERENTLY
LINK THEM WITH OPPORTUNITIES
Received Jesus. Filled with the Holy Spirit
MIXING SECULAR AND SACRED. WORK AND PERSONAL FAITH COMPLETELY INTERTWINED
LINK THEM WITH OPPORTUNITIES
SHOULD NOT BE POOR!!!

12. LINKING STUDENTS TO OPPORTUNITIES
HOW? W4AL MODEL
WORK 4 A LIVING
JOB CENTER
BUSINESS SCHOOL
SKILLS CENTRE
EDUCATION
LINKING STUDENTS TO OPPORTUNITIES
STUDENTS
Word-of-Mouth
ALL THIS HAPPENS AT OUR WORK 4 A LIVING Centres
This is the kind of fasting I have chosen: Loosen the chains of wickedness, untie the straps of the yoke, let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke.
During W4AL:
LOOSEN THE CHAINS – MIRROR THEIR POVERTY – ask them if they want to stay there
Look at the way they work and live
UNTIE THE YOKE
Culture and belief
Impact of parents
FREEDOM
- Teach them another way
Excellence in the workplace
Biblical WORLDVIEW
NOW READY:
BREAK YOKE
Introduce them to Jesus
Filled with the Holy Spirit
Teach wisdom therough Discipleship
Teach caring for your neighbour through DOL
THEN WE RAMP IT UP BY CHARGING FORWARD AND teaching skills and linking them to job oportunities and business opportunitis
RESULTS
BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW
DISCIPLED

13. BREAKING THE CYCLE OF POVERTY
WHAT WE DO
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF POVERTY BY
Equipping and empowering people with employability and entrepreneurial skills needed to support themselves and their families.
THROUGH A
BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW.
THEREBY
PLACING SPIRIT-FILLED, DISCIPLED PEOPLE IN THE WORKPLACE WHO UNDERSTAND EXCELLENCE

14. GOAL A W4AL Centre…EVERY CITY, EVERY TOWN .
…wherever there is POVERTY or NEED.
His power at work in us can do far more than we DARE ask or imagine. Ephesians 3:20