and commerce that it was on record that Abraham equally paid tithe to Melchizedek, the one who was also a priest, and the king of Salem. If you are not doing well materially and resourcefully, how can you pay tithe to any priest? How can you build and develop yourself and children? Poor Teaching Syndrome leads into Self-fulfilling Prophecies The major problem of poor teachings is that they create bigger rooms for people to have small minds. People with such small minds cannot be motivated to take actions in life that will translate them into greater opportunities and the victory sanctuary of life where the grace of God is abundant, and where there is much more to go around materially and resourcefully. A careful analysis of the majority of the masses who fill our church pews and majority of our citizens in society today have been adversely affected with what I describe as Poor Teachings Syndrome (PTS). Poor Teaching Syndrome (PTS) are pedagogies that I describe as using religion to brainwash people; undermine their physical and material potentials and well-being, and the pursuit of certain religious agenda that negates empowering the minds of adherents to climb the material ladder of the earthly resources in ways that people become significant on earth while waiting for Jesus return. PTS has steadily regressed the financing of the work of the gospel of the kingdom (Matt 24:14) and has sabotaged many believers and their churches from reaching their kingdom capital. PTS philosophical systems are therefore, predominant in the thoughts, actions, and in the minds of many people living a life of poverty and struggle in many religious gatherings. Congregations, people, communities and families infected with PTS end up teaching and infecting their own offspring with the same syndrome. I have seen and heard numerous people who procrastinate on their success or that of their children because of poor teachings and a poor thinking pattern. It has facilitated many crimes and subjected people over time to be engaged in microwave thinking—a shallow thinking that is rooted in the belief of immediate compensation, thus neglecting the long term consequences of poor actions. Is it any wonder that PTS has continued to subject many to swim in the stream of self-fulfilling prophecies? Why will you keep procrastinating on your joy when you can do better today with happiness and success? Don’t Procrastinate Your Joy & Success I have heard people more often say; oh he achieved that because he didn’t play by the rules. I could have been married by now. I could have landed in that career. I could have owned that house. I could have owned that car. I could have owned that firm or business. I could have been that rich guy in town, but then we quickly recline into claiming that our own riches are in heaven. Why not such riches begin here—I mean on earth first, so that we are better prepared to walk on the streets of gold in heaven? The problem with this system of understanding is that it has created nothing but a double standard of living. I know of many people who deeply covet to be that wealthy business tycoon in town. However, PTS console them to give up with such thoughts and compensate them with mediocrity. Who wouldn’t like to do well? I have witnessed those who sincerely desire that their children will be able to live at those nice houses and apartments in the neighborhood and attend those distinguished schools in town. But again, PTS get in their way. I have seen people whose life would have not been cut short if they had better health insurance or the financial resources needed to take their loved ones to that good or specialist hospital or consultant. The problem is that they couldn’t afford to. The question is why not? The perception problem installed in our mind by PTS has led many into rejecting God’s material blessings and abundant living opportunities even when they are provided. You Can’t Continue This Way It was