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Hundredfold Insights Into Finance
Hi, here is an interview with Bob from Christian PF. This is a Christian Personal Finance site that can begin to add some helpful information in how you get a handle of your finances.
I believe knowing some of these basic things, in combination with transforming the way you think and feel in accordance with Scripture, will result in tangible changes.
Personal finance is one area which I believe is important to get a hold of. But I believe to take these wise steps in the right context: first seek the Kingdom of God, release your need to hold onto any financial possessions, and come to them in the right posture, understanding it all belongs to God.
I know this sounds difficult, which is why I put the entire process together over a 40-day period. But I also know that many readers have been struggling with debt, so wanted them to be able to take actions, which are an important part in the 40 days.
So, enjoy, and take notes!
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Hundredfolding LIVE! Grow your vision and your dreams…
Listen to this awesome, sincere pastor who knows and loves God and how we apply some of our Hundredfold principles from our 40-day program.
If you want to hear how someone honestly presents how to grow your faith by experiencing the hundredfold now when you seek, first and foremost, the Kingdom of God, then please listen to this excerpt from a real-live coaching session:
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How to be motivated at work — Colossians 3
There’s a story about three bricklayers.
As you read it, which one describes you.
The first one is asked, “What are you doing” and he replies, “Laying brick.”
The second one is ask, “What are you doing” and he replies, “Making $9.30 an hour.”
The third is asked the same question and he replies, “I’m building the world’s greatest cathedral!”
If you want to experience advancement and security about your work and hundredfold everything about it, start with this: think you work is important.
Here’s specifically what I mean from Scripture — Colossians 3:23-24:
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
In Day 23 we spend some time in how to execute to this. But an important element of this still resonates with our work on renewing your mind.
Here’s what you can do:
With the way you do the work, how would you work at it if your boss were God?
Okay, how would you behave if you knew, even with a crummy real boss, Jesus was watching you?
How would you change your attitude if the job you had was part of God’s plan and you were serving an important role, even though you haven’t been told what it is?
The power of right-thinking your motivation on the job in accordance with Scripture will do a couple of things for you:
- It will make you more motivated
- You will stand out from others
- The “pain” of the work will subside — maybe you’ll look forward to it
- New, hundredfolding opportunities will come to mind
When you work at the job as if it is important, even if it is beneath you, the right job can be entrusted with you!
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Why renewing your mind can save your life
As an expansion of Day 3 from our “40 Days” program, I’ve been reading a book which has some good things, albeit at times a little cheesy. “The Magic of Thinking Big” caught my attention because I believe the biggest thought we can contain comes right out of our Day 3 Lesson, and that is God and what God thinks is our best.
In this book, he quotes from a meeting he had with the head of a psychological consulting firm. He said that many people could be lifted from pain and malady if they did this:
“Simply this: destroy their negative thoughts before those thoughts become mental monsters.”
Mental monsters are as much as conforming to the world as anything else.
The example of someone using a secular exercise was to take a woman who was depressed and borderline mentally disturbed was lifted up by listing three things to be happy about.
No medication. Just pulling pleasant thoughts and focusing on those for three months changed her around.
If such proof of the power of the mind works in the secular world, why can’t we just take those steps and understand what God has in mind for us?
Where does it say we should be creating our own mental monsters of unhappiness and suffering when they are creations of our own thoughts?
I look back and think the lesson and exercises in Day 3 are a powerful foundation in what God really wants us to think.
There are other ways in which the “renewal of your mind” can impact your life, longevity, and even your impact in the world.
3 Reasons Every Church Should Wrestle with Abundance (#2)
Reason #2: Because Living Abundantly in a Scarce World Stretches Our Faith
The parable of the loaves and fishes is in all four gospels, and it illustrates what a profound difference there is between our scarcity-mentality and God’s abundance mentality.
Jesus illustrates what it is to think and live abundantly, to take what is at hand and, in partnership with God meets our needs.
But it tests our faith.
The disciples were reasonable men who saw that the feeding of 5000 was a huge undertaking. Huge!
What they had at hand was so little. Some fish and some loaves.
But Jesus wants us to turn to Him, to give to Him what we see as little, as tiny, as miniscule, and let Him to translate that into abundance. God meets our needs, but so many people operate with so little faith.
To question God’s abundance even though He is literally overflowing, maybe even wasteful in just how abundant He created the world, is to show a weakness in our faith. Human nature says that there isn’t enough and that God cannot provide.
Growing in our faith in God’s abundance will grow our faith in all aspects. Don’t we often succumb to doing things our own way when there’s a scarcity mentality towards whatever area in our life? Finance, love, respect, freedom? Scarcity in all those areas leads us into sin unless we turn to God for our source of abundance.
So when a church avoids tackling the issues of abundance, they do their congregation a disservice of challenging them in their walk and in their faith.
Conversely, imagine what a church can do when they live totally abundantly and totally free?
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3 Reasons Why Every Church Should Wrestle with Abundant Living (#1)
What do I mean by wrestling with “abundant living”? I mean in their messages and interactions reach down and have an open, active dialogue with their members on what abundant living means.
It means understanding in small discussions, polls, open forums how do people define abundance in their lives, what they do or don’t do to strive for it, and what does the Bible say?
Is this a conversation about money? Yes, in large part it is, but not in its entirety. It is about the whole package and examines Jesus’ words that he comes so that we may have life and have it abundantly (or richly).
So here are three reasons why, starting with today’s post for reason #1:
Reason #1: Because people are having this dialogue whether the church engages them or not
Okay, maybe you could say the subject of abundance is a secular discussion and not worthy of the church to get involved.
But the rest of the world is engaging in it, and it is taking up the bulk of the conversation. It could be as crass as advertisements or it could be loose conversations at work or self-help books.
“Abundance” in the secular world looks like the ful attainment in career, material wealth, relationships, learning, exploration — the living of a “full life.” And the world has its own set of enticing definitions.
So what does the Bible say about both how to attain abundant living and what is the actual definition?
It says quite a bit, I think. Sure, the word “abundant” or “abundance” itself it not used that much, but as a document which looks at human fears of scarcity and desires for prosperity, it has much to say. And much of it is counter-cultural.
That’s why it’s so important.
I take my primitive stab at the conversation through a work-in-progress by speaking into the format and language of abundance with my seven-day course. You can sign up for free by clicking on:
www.theKingWithin.com/wordpress/7days
Next post: the second reason why Churches should wrestle with abundance
Introduction Part I — What is the Purpose of the Book?
The book looks at the concept of "abundance" which, technically, isn’t really discussed much in the Scriptures. One of the better known references is found in John 10:10 in which Jesus says that he comes to bring life so that we may live life abundantly or richly.
But I felt that it was important to go through a set of Scripture to help people experience "Abundance" as God wants us to.
So what’s key is that unlike many other programs which just focus on getting what you want, this is about changing both who you are and what you want.
In other words, some people may start with one definition of abundance (or success or wealth or whatever) and my goal is that through a process where we direct ourselves towards God in mind, heart, strength, and soul, we begin to redefine and re-experience abundance today.
Why is this so important?
Some would say that this is *not* important because we are to focus on eternity. Eternity gives us perspective for what we are to do today.
However, I believe that when God’s people are overflowing in abundance — however it becomes defined by your based on Scripture — that it will transform others and allow others to see God’s work in our lives.
My hope is that by bringing into your life a set of steps to experience abundance in this life-time you can share God’s work with others so they may know Him in eternity.
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Introduction Part I — What is the Purpose of the Book?
The book looks at the concept of "abundance" which, technically, isn’t really discussed much in the Scriptures. One of the better known references is found in John 10:10 in which Jesus says that he comes to bring life so that we may live life abundantly or richly.
But I felt that it was important to go through a set of Scripture to help people experience "Abundance" as God wants us to.
So what’s key is that unlike many other programs which just focus on getting what you want, this is about changing both who you are and what you want.
In other words, some people may start with one definition of abundance (or success or wealth or whatever) and my goal is that through a process where we direct ourselves towards God in mind, heart, strength, and soul, we begin to redefine and re-experience abundance today.
Why is this so important?
Some would say that this is *not* important because we are to focus on eternity. Eternity gives us perspective for what we are to do today.
However, I believe that when God’s people are overflowing in abundance — however it becomes defined by your based on Scripture — that it will transform others and allow others to see God’s work in our lives.
My hope is that by bringing into your life a set of steps to experience abundance in this life-time you can share God’s work with others so they may know Him in eternity.
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How to use what you have for much more….
To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance.
Here is a sample track from our audio version of “The King Within: 40 Days to Abundance”. Only, this is a discarded draft.
The content is still good…the music mix didn’t work out so I’m going to have to record it again.
But that means you get a copy of it…for free!
As always, when you’re ready to go to the next step for the full e-book, just go to:
www.theKingWithin.com/NextSteps
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Sowing in Good Soil
In preparation for our second product to help people start their own business drawing on Biblical principles, I started thinking about the Parable of the Sower.
The intent of the parable is to illustrate how different people or “soil” receive God’s word, in particular, Jesus’ Gospel.
However, using it as a “principle” for a business, I think it is valuable. The way, of course, to make the business most aligned with the principle is to treat the building of relationships with customers and potential customers the same as you would be sharing the Gospel.
In fact, as I am exploring further, they should be seen as the same. The business is a “vehicle” in which you can sow the real seeds of Jesus’ salvation.
Anyhoo. Here is the parable from Luke:
A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. 6Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. 7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. 8Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.
Here is my rambling, raw, think-out-loud on the subject:
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