Femi LazarusCEO at Femi Lazarus Consulting

Destiny has a lot to do with timing. #aflmentoring #reels #femilazarus

6 Sept 2025 · 2 min

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A minister reflects on starting a ministry in a religious environment where ambitious people were criticized for wanting leadership. He argues that destiny depends on timing: authentic people get rejected first, then celebrated later, while conformists disappear into the crowd. Don't beg for belief from people who aren't aligned with you.

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When our ministry was starting, I was in a very religious place with many religious people. I was the— I've always been the odd one out. I'm used to it. That's my journey. I've always been odd. Well, I'm not odd, I'm just different. And so far, I look at the pattern of my life, those who conform, I've always had to return back to them. It was a very religious place where, when our ministry was starting, the good boys were those who killed their own vision to be accepted. And they say things like, oh, he's trying to become a general overseer. God was raising me as a model for them to see that if you're going to do any— because destiny has a lot to do with timing. Or rather, they were criticizing their model. And that's why you must never beg people to remain in your life or to believe in you. In fact, you need to know on time those who don't, so that you will be able to streamline your impact. Hey, I saw it, that the world doesn't tolerate initially authentic people. But they are the ones the world will later celebrate. But those who conform, those who look like the crowd, those who do what everyone is doing, those who are— like I said, don't be a bad good boy so much so that the basis for being good is that you destroy everything you can become because you want to make sense.