LOVE in Action

COME:

1 Thessalonians 4

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; 10 and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more; 11 that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

HEAR:

There is one theme I see in the verses above. I see God commanding holiness in our lives. Not to make us subject to bondage but to keep us free from the affects of death. In this holiness not only should we be pure in our actions, such as being sexually pure, but we should be pure in our attitudes. We are to keep a quite life. This doesn't mean we don't stand for righteousness in a fallen society and make the will of God known in the public square. That, especially in the USA, we SHOULD do. But this does mean that we don't brow beat people who never asked for our opinions. The Church at large has done such a poor job of loving the sinner. We hold the sinner to our standards. We say unless you be like us, you are to be shunned. We forget, that at one level or another, we WERE that sinner before Jesus. Even the one raised in Church and believing in Jesus from a young young age has his or her past and current sins. Rather than trying to be perfect and make everyone else perfect... let's learn to love people with the love of God. That is what the chapter goes on to say. LOVE one another.

Does love mean accepting sin? NO! Does love mean accepting the sinner WITHOUT trying to make them just like you and make them believe what you believe? YES! That means I can walk up to my Gay female co-worker. I can ask her how her girlfriend is doing... JUST as if I was asking my straight co-worker how his wife was doing. I can mean the question sincerely. I can be honestly interested in their welfare. They never asked me my opinion on whether being Gay was right for them or any of my opinions on the subject. To bring it up wouldn't be acting in LOVE. IF, the day comes that my walking in LOVE with those coworkers who don't believe as I believe causes them to ask me about the HOPE that it is in me. I'll tell them. I still won't brow beat them over the sin in their lives. Jesus died for ALL sin. I won't bring up theirs or mine. It's all under the blood, even if they don't know it yet. And they are never going to ask me to help them receive that forgiveness if I'm arguing about their life choices.

I mind MY business. I work with my hands, doing the assignments the LORD has placed on me, and I do it in LOVE and EXCELLENCE. Those who will follow, will follow. I'm called to Pastor. I have no Church right now. But my sheep are those who I come in contact with that ASK ME to lead them. They come, one by one, one at a time... I have no right to correct a Christian who is speaking in doubt and unbelief or any right to correct a someone living in a Gay lifestyle. The only time I EARN that right is when I have loved them sufficiently that they ask me to become that advisors. When that happens I must make sure I continue to walk in LOVE so that I don't loose that right. Thank you Jesus for teaching me to walk in LOVE.

DO:

I'm going to keep my preaching to myself... LISTEN MORE... TALK LESS... and SHOW people the LOVE of GOD, rather than TELL PEOPLE about the what they're doing wrong... Thank you Jesus!

PRAYER:

Father, help me! I need to remember your GRACE IN ME so that I can be YOUR GRACE THROUGH ME to others! Holy Spirit, help me to remain firmly rooted in your love for me. Thank you for the opportunity today to love others, as you have loved me! Darrell




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Attitude Is Altitude

Attitude Is Altitude.

It’s amazing. I saw God work a miracle in my sales numbers in this year. All without my doing anything different, just having a better attitude and daring to agree with my wife’s faith that God could do more for me there. I’d given up on the job. But I decided that if she could believe God would do more for us there, then I could at least try to agree with her. Some great move of faith huh?!
SO… I said, God I agree with my wife’s faith on this issue. I ask you now, do more for me there at the job. Suddenly at the end of the 2nd quarter, weeks from not ending without any bonus at all, TWO miracles happened.

Miracle 1

First of all, with nothing more than an attitude change. My sales numbers spiked up. Almost all of my metrics looked better. We have a great sales system at my job that allows us to track conversations with customers, as we talk to them by phone. Since many people prefer not to open things over the phone, but don’t mind talking about them by phone, we have as many, if not more, customers talk to us and then go in to open the product as we do those who let us do it directly. This is called the “pipeline”.
WELL… the pipeline started dumping out results and all of a sudden I wasn’t personally opening anything more than normal, but more and more of those people I’d talked to decided to do what I advised and open things. Well now things are cooking, but not enough to bump me into bonus category.

Miracle 2

THEN, my boss comes to me and tells me that he has great news for me. This has only happened “One other time in the ten years I’ve worked here…” They decided upstairs that they budgeted a certain amount for bonus pay and they aren’t paying enough people. So they lowered the bonus requirements!
And just like that. Weeks from the end of the quarter I went from getting NOTHING to getting $1,700… Man, God is good!
Well, that was great… but you know what else happened. Those last few weeks of June went into overflow in July and I hit and surpassed the loan volume I did in the whole previous quarter 2 weeks into the new month. I started the new quarter already set to bonus. All that was to be determined was by how much… In July I was in fact number 2 in the whole department!

Then I Changed

I wish I could tell you that it ended there and I soared into superstardom!
Finances were tight, I decided I still needed a second job to make ends meet… even though I’d been fighting it for two years. I let that discourage me and threw a month long pity party… So August… not a great month. In fact, IF my month in August had been average I would have sailed through the quarter, but my month in August was pitiful and actually started to bring down my quarter. I actually ended August in danger of dropping one level… And it should be noted, as with June and July… I wasn’t personally closing anything more or less than I had previously… pipeline just started to dry up…

Turn Around Again…

Repent Means to Change the Mind (Even if you have to do it over and over…)

SO… I catch this trend and turn it around, with the help of my wife and boss, in the last days of August.
It is now the end of week 2 in September… my attitude has been improving throughout the last few weeks… You want to guess what happened?
Suddenly! My pipeline came alive again and stuff started closing again. My numbers are creeping up away from the danger zone. I actually climbed one level in one category. I’m now on pace to make nearly double, if not double, what I made last month… Hmmm…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0UFbU2tFU


What lesson could we take away from this? It’s not about being better at your job than other people… it’s not about getting the best skills, the newest tricks, the best new catch phrases… attitude. It’s all about attitude. As you begin to relax. Trust that in GRACE your Father in Heaven already has your best interest at heart, you are where He has you for now. Bloom where you are planted, as I’ve been reading in Joel Osteen's book “Every day a Friday”.

Take Aways?

Has it been easy? NO! Sometimes I get SO FRUSTRATED! It feels like I’m the ONLY one doing the right thing and everyone else is cheating their way through and getting better results. It feels like the people who transfer callers to me have no integrity but I have to. It feels like the ones at the top who make the decisions to ignore these integrity issues are putting pressure on me…
1 Kings 19:10

10 So he said, "I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life."

Can you see the prophet now? Mighty man of God… whining and complaining to God… “Woe is me… Woe is me…”
But things aren’t always as they feel. Maybe there aren’t as many issues as I see… maybe I see them because I’m looking for them, like a person who buys a new car, and then suddenly sees that car EVERYWHERE!
1 Kings 19:18

The Lord Said…”18 Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him."

God always has a plan… it’s always better than yours! It always involves him doing for you, that which you could not do for yourself!
I must return to GRACE. Only as I allow the GRACE of God to rule my heart, can I dispense that GRACE to others! What does that mean? If I hold myself to a higher standard, to the point that I get frustrated with myself if I see my numbers drop, complain so that they drop further, and spiral down into a cycle… I’m not allowing God to do for me, that which I could not do for myself. GRACE is about letting God do for you what you could not do for yourself, and that which he’s been just waiting for the chance to do for you. When GRACE brings results they bring GLORY to God.
So I let GRACE rule my heart and mind. I didn’t do it perfectly… just as before… it might have been more me agreeing with my wife and God than rising up in my own faith… but look at the results.
It just took the pressure right off of me. I stopped allowing the pressure to take me down. God will have to add his super to this natural, or I’m not going to get the results I want. SO I do the right thing, the right way, the right time, because it’s right and I do it right… then I let God have the results and the Glory. If I succeed it’s on Him, and He never fails!
Thank you Jesus! I hope this helps you, I know it did me! I just hope I remember this tomorrow in the middle of the fire again… If you want to hear some GREAT messages on this topic I suggest you listen to Jennifer Rastovski from 14Forty.Com! Check the messages from This week (September 2012) and Last, and those to follow titled “Boundaries Get in the Zone”.
Live Long and Prosper! Darrell Wolfe







I call you empowered 2 prosper with good success!

Darrell G. Wolfe
http://n2gs.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/n2goodsuccess

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Attitude Is Altitude

Attitude Is Altitude.

It’s amazing. I saw God work a miracle in my sales numbers in this year. All without my doing anything different, just having a better attitude and daring to agree with my wife’s faith that God could do more for me there. I’d given up on the job. But I decided that if she could believe God would do more for us there, then I could at least try to agree with her. Some great move of faith huh?!
SO… I said, God I agree with my wife’s faith on this issue. I ask you now, do more for me there at the job. Suddenly at the end of the 2nd quarter, weeks from not ending without any bonus at all, TWO miracles happened.

Miracle 1

First of all, with nothing more than an attitude change. My sales numbers spiked up. Almost all of my metrics looked better. We have a great sales system at my job that allows us to track conversations with customers, as we talk to them by phone. Since many people prefer not to open things over the phone, but don’t mind talking about them by phone, we have as many, if not more, customers talk to us and then go in to open the product as we do those who let us do it directly. This is called the “pipeline”.
WELL… the pipeline started dumping out results and all of a sudden I wasn’t personally opening anything more than normal, but more and more of those people I’d talked to decided to do what I advised and open things. Well now things are cooking, but not enough to bump me into bonus category.

Miracle 2

THEN, my boss comes to me and tells me that he has great news for me. This has only happened “One other time in the ten years I’ve worked here…” They decided upstairs that they budgeted a certain amount for bonus pay and they aren’t paying enough people. So they lowered the bonus requirements!
And just like that. Weeks from the end of the quarter I went from getting NOTHING to getting $1,700… Man, God is good!
Well, that was great… but you know what else happened. Those last few weeks of June went into overflow in July and I hit and surpassed the loan volume I did in the whole previous quarter 2 weeks into the new month. I started the new quarter already set to bonus. All that was to be determined was by how much… In July I was in fact number 2 in the whole department!

Then I Changed

I wish I could tell you that it ended there and I soared into superstardom!
Finances were tight, I decided I still needed a second job to make ends meet… even though I’d been fighting it for two years. I let that discourage me and threw a month long pity party… So August… not a great month. In fact, IF my month in August had been average I would have sailed through the quarter, but my month in August was pitiful and actually started to bring down my quarter. I actually ended August in danger of dropping one level… And it should be noted, as with June and July… I wasn’t personally closing anything more or less than I had previously… pipeline just started to dry up…

Turn Around Again…

Repent Means to Change the Mind (Even if you have to do it over and over…)

SO… I catch this trend and turn it around, with the help of my wife and boss, in the last days of August.
It is now the end of week 2 in September… my attitude has been improving throughout the last few weeks… You want to guess what happened?
Suddenly! My pipeline came alive again and stuff started closing again. My numbers are creeping up away from the danger zone. I actually climbed one level in one category. I’m now on pace to make nearly double, if not double, what I made last month… Hmmm…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0UFbU2tFU


What lesson could we take away from this? It’s not about being better at your job than other people… it’s not about getting the best skills, the newest tricks, the best new catch phrases… attitude. It’s all about attitude. As you begin to relax. Trust that in GRACE your Father in Heaven already has your best interest at heart, you are where He has you for now. Bloom where you are planted, as I’ve been reading in Joel Osteen's book “Every day a Friday”.

Take Aways?

Has it been easy? NO! Sometimes I get SO FRUSTRATED! It feels like I’m the ONLY one doing the right thing and everyone else is cheating their way through and getting better results. It feels like the people who transfer callers to me have no integrity but I have to. It feels like the ones at the top who make the decisions to ignore these integrity issues are putting pressure on me…
1 Kings 19:10

10 So he said, "I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life."

Can you see the prophet now? Mighty man of God… whining and complaining to God… “Woe is me… Woe is me…”
But things aren’t always as they feel. Maybe there aren’t as many issues as I see… maybe I see them because I’m looking for them, like a person who buys a new car, and then suddenly sees that car EVERYWHERE!
1 Kings 19:18

The Lord Said…”18 Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him."

God always has a plan… it’s always better than yours! It always involves him doing for you, that which you could not do for yourself!
I must return to GRACE. Only as I allow the GRACE of God to rule my heart, can I dispense that GRACE to others! What does that mean? If I hold myself to a higher standard, to the point that I get frustrated with myself if I see my numbers drop, complain so that they drop further, and spiral down into a cycle… I’m not allowing God to do for me, that which I could not do for myself. GRACE is about letting God do for you what you could not do for yourself, and that which he’s been just waiting for the chance to do for you. When GRACE brings results they bring GLORY to God.
So I let GRACE rule my heart and mind. I didn’t do it perfectly… just as before… it might have been more me agreeing with my wife and God than rising up in my own faith… but look at the results.
It just took the pressure right off of me. I stopped allowing the pressure to take me down. God will have to add his super to this natural, or I’m not going to get the results I want. SO I do the right thing, the right way, the right time, because it’s right and I do it right… then I let God have the results and the Glory. If I succeed it’s on Him, and He never fails!
Thank you Jesus! I hope this helps you, I know it did me! I just hope I remember this tomorrow in the middle of the fire again… If you want to hear some GREAT messages on this topic I suggest you listen to Jennifer Rastovski from 14Forty.Com! Check the messages from This week (September 2012) and Last, and those to follow titled “Boundaries Get in the Zone”.
Live Long and Prosper! Darrell Wolfe







I call you empowered 2 prosper with good success!

Darrell G. Wolfe
http://n2gs.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/n2goodsuccess

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“Pay Attention to Me…My system is stronger than ever.”

“Pay Attention to Me…My system is stronger than ever.”
Don’t pay attention to or make any plans based on what the media says
or what the politicians say. Stand on My Word in John 16. Pay attention to Me.
I [the Holy Spirit] will obey verses 13-15. I will show you things to come. I will
lead you through troubled times. I already have THE plan for you, and it’s very
good. Follow it. It will not only get you through, it will place you in a very high
place—a rich place—a strong place of victory.
You will have to discipline yourself and be diligent to listen to Me. All the
other voices will have a plan, a word, an idea for your future and security.
Don’t listen to Babylon’s system. It has fallen apart. My system is stronger than
ever. My kingdom is flourishing, and THE BLESSING is the place to be.
Keep your eyes on My Word. Listen to it. It will guide you and I will
perform it. Love Me. Love My people as I have loved you. Walk in it. Love never
fails, and neither does My plan.
Be very cautious to stay completely clean from covetousness. First
Timothy 6:10 must live in the forefront of your thinking. If you will do these
things and continue therein, you will come into your wealthy place. A place
lifted up. A place in Me already planned and prepared for you now. Here. Not
heaven—not yet. But it will seem like heaven right in the midst of all the
trouble, and you’ll be able to reach out to untold numbers of suffering people
with the Good News of the gospel.
I’m coming very soon. Sooner than you think. Keep your eyes on Me and
you’ll get the job done.
     —Prophecy delivered by Kenneth Copeland
        Oct. 19, 2008

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Rejoice... put on a smile!

Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say: REJOICE! Phill 4:4

To rejoice is to have joy again. It's a choice, not based on circumstances. This is a hard pill to swallow. I have been VERY busy. I haven't written anything in months. It's time I picked up again, when I can. So I write now to say this very simple thing. SMILE! You're on Candid God Cam! Yes, God is always with you. There is a cloud of witnesses that are watching you. Angels are with you. Demons are watching... and people are watching, especially the ones that you don't even realize know that you exist. Yes... they are watching too.

Science has shown us, time and again, that if you smile, you're body will actually respond. People who smiled, on purpose, for a science test actually experience quick response in lower blood pressure and other healthy responses. So smile, who cares how you feel, smile! Before you tell me that you can't, remember that you have done it a thousand times for a church event, work, or meeting someone new. People who don't feel like smiling put on a smile all the time. Well, as it turns out there are benefits to smiling.

Put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. If you choose joy enough times, it will eventually infect your emotions too.

Darrell



I call you empowered 2 prosper with good success!
http://empoweredtooprosper.blogspot.com/
Facebook.Com/EmpoweredTooProsper

For other sites by Wolfe Family Conceptions: 

• http://wfconceptions.wordpress.com/

Darrell G. Wolfe

See Also N2 Good Success:

• http://n2gs.blogspot.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/n2goodsuccess
• Book Suggestion from the N2 Good Success Amazon Store
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Desire to Succeed

Desire to Succeed

One would think that everyone wants to prosper, succeed and do well in life. Unfortunately this is not true. Certainly most people wouldn't mind a hand out or a check in the mail for any amount. However statistics show 44% of lottery winners spend their entire winnings within 5 years. Why? They got money, but there was no change of heart. Their mindset never changed.

I talk to people for a living. Both in my "J.O.B." and in my other work efforts. I'm always amazed at the mix of people I talk to. There are actually very few that let me help them. Almost 98% could use my help. I would say less than 25% actually let me help. I'll take responsibility for some of that. Maybe I didn't help them understand by fully explaining my background, experience, and ability to help them. I didn't fully explain the reason I asked so many questions, which is that I want to make sure I'm fully accessing my years of experience and putting forth valuable suggestions that could forever alter the course and direction of their financial life, or at the very least enhance or clarify their financial life in some way.

It's rare that there is NOTHING I can do to help someone's finances. On the few occasions that there is nothing I can do it's usually because they have done such a great job planning or I just didn't ask enough questions because I'm human and I'm not always fully engaged in the conversation either. Most people that I can't help either fall into one or both of these two groups: Lack of Knowledge or Lack of Desire. 

Knowledge

Here's the thing. The vast majority of people I talk to I COULD help, but they don't want my help. Sometimes it's because they think they already know. They are calling with an agenda, asking questions trying to sound tough (when really their attitude is more from a fear of looking like they don't know what they're doing.). They brush me off and say things like: "Yeah Yeah Yeah... I know..." These all fall into the class of lacking knowledge. They may either lack knowledge and know it, or sometimes they don't know it.
Actually lack of knowledge isn't the hardest thing to overcome. Knowledge is readily available online for free to those who will take the time to search it out. I can direct them in many cases to great resources. With enough questions I can sometimes overcome their fear and lack of knowledge and ease their concerns and get them moving in the right direction.

Desire

Some people though... these are the ones that really bug me... they simply don't WANT to succeed in life. They may half heartedly wish to. They wouldn't mind a handout or lottery win. But they don't actually have any intention on prospering. Some people have been beat down for so long, either by life or people or both, that they have lost any will to do better. They have no hope.

I once knew a homeless man who had a background in ministry before falling into sin and going to jail. He had just been released. He told me that I would not be homeless myself very long, because I had what no-one else in the shelter had. "Hope". He told me that when I started ministering to these people that my biggest job would be to build their hope. Once Hope is birthed into a soul, and nurtured into a flame, all other keys to success begin to come more naturally to them. I talk to people who fall into one of three categories. 

1. Religious.There are a few people left out there who are still drinking Satan's cool-aid which confuses them into thinking that money is somehow evil or wrong to have. They have this twisted idea that being poor is a good thing or helps you stay humble. 
2. Next Beer Folks. They don't have any desire once so ever, other than to make it to their next day off, or even off their current shift, and make it home to a beer and TV. This isn't reserved for "Alcoholics" either. This is a whole class of people who just want the next small pleasure and have no desire or idea that they could have more, and wouldn't want to put the work into doing more if they did know they could. 
3. Just Enough Crowd. This is the worst crowd, often mixed in with the Religious crowd, but not always. This group says that they don't want to have "too much". They want "Just enough for me and mine". They have a little in savings and they're dong OK. They have no plans or desire to do bigger and better. They are satisfied with their little more than enough. This crowd often says that they have every intention of being exactly where they are next year and in five years. Status Quo. Don't rock the boat. 

Selfish

The bible is clear. We should be wealthy. The biggest reason is that God has work to do on this planet and we are the ones who He will do it through. It is through His children that He establishes His covenant on and in this earth. All three of the reasons listed above come down to selfishness. Focus on one's self and not taking into account the bigger picture. 


This is most true with the "just enough" excuse. What do you mean you want just enough for you and yours? You don't want to take "too much"? Too much what? You've taken too much when there is no-one on this planet that could use any more money or assistance. God gave this planet the ability to produce for anyone that would work it. Inventions, witty ideas, and more come to those who follow God's path.

What about the Strangers, Orphans, and Widows? You don't want to help them? What about your Pastor, Missionaries, Bibles that need to be taken around the world, people in prison who need to hear about Jesus... what about all the things God wants to do but no-one will believe God to get rich enough to fund them.

I personally believe that everyone who made excuses for not wanting too much will stand on judgment day accused of starving God's work. Here are just a few thoughts from the Word on Wealth:

Proverbs 13:22

22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

2 Corinthians 9

7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.


Deuteronomy 8:18

18 And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 28

1 "Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God: 3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country


1 Timothy 6:17

17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

Generosity

The whole point in our prosperity is for us to be so prosperous that we don't even think about our needs, wants, or desires... We are then so wrapped up in giving to others, benefiting others, and creating situations that empower others to prosper we forgot to think about ourselves entirely.

In his book "No More Monday's" Dan Miller makes a profound statement on this subject. He says that he has known the richest and poorest people in this country. He finds that the rich hardly ever talk about their money. Often they live in modest homes or lifestyles. They are average in appearance. The poor and broke, however, ALWAYS talk about money. They talk their lack of money all the time. They have money and their lack of it on the mind 24-7.

Matthew 6:24/Luke16:13

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

These poor people are serving money when money should be serving them. Thus they are unable to do all the things God has called them to do. You may not be called to preach, teach, write, or go on missions trips. But you are called to do something with your talents and abilities and giftings that benefit this world and bring people to God. If you are worried about money, you are hindered from doing that!

1 Timothy 6:10

10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

It's the poor, and those who are poor in mind, that are most guilty of the Love of Money. They talk about it all the time, they talk about their lack of it. They are the ones falling for "Get rich quick" schemes. Rich people, by and in large, don't do these things because they took the time to understand wealth, how to get it, keep it, grow it, use it... and they worked diligently to make these things work for them.

This is why socialism is so wrong. It's based on the premise that you can do nothing, or less, and still get the same reward as the one who worked harder than you. That is evil a twisted. God gives you things based on Jesus sacrifice. So in that sense He gives you things you don't deserve every day! But God is NOT interested in taking others hard work and giving it to you for nothing.

Lottery winners that spend their money did so because they had no idea what to do with it. They were focused on self. Had they been focused on what God wanted them to do they would have channeled that wealth into a regenerating income that would grow rather than shrink. This would have been a channel for great Kingdom use. Jesus told this to a rich young ruler, but he didn't wait around to hear the whole story. Had he stuck around he would have seen that Jesus wanted to get him off the world's system of wealth and transfer him to God's system of wealth. It's a different system with different principles.

Mark 10:17-30

17 Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" 18 So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. 19 You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and your mother.' " 20 And he answered and said to Him, "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth." 21 Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me." 22 But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 23 Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!" 24 And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." 26 And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, "Who then can be saved?" 27 But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible." 28 Then Peter began to say to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You." 29 So Jesus answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's, 30 who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life.

HOPE

How does one get hope? Where did my hope come from? It comes from the Word. Hope can't be taught or forced on someone. You cannot force someone to desire a better life. Hope can be caught, but not taught. You must see it's available, catch a glimmer from someone, and then cultivate it as a seed. 

That's why desire is harder to work with that knowledge. I can teach you things to do. But if you are not wanting to do better, I can't help you. You have to want to have a better life. Really want it. You may not have a firm expectation yet... but if you have even a glimmer of desire to have better I can work with that. We can fan that flame, through meditation on the Word of God and Preaching from anointed ministers and reading after successful people... It can burn brighter and brighter until you are more convinced on the inside that your days of lack are over than you are of anything you see on the outside.

That is the day things change. Nothing may have changed on the outside. But when you are convinced beyond any shadow of any doubt that God WANTS you prosperous and successful... there is nothing that will take you off it... Change has started, better is coming. It may come quick, it may come slow. Some of that will depend on your action. If you slip back into old habits of doing or thinking it may delay your prosperity... but that's ok... repent (change your mindset) and pick it back up again.

"There"

I'm not "There" yet either... I don't know if I'll ever be "There" really. Where is "There". The moment I set a realistic impossible goal and acheive it, God will have me setting new ones. Million becomes Billion becomes earth shattering... there is always a new level... Don't feel bad because you are not "There" yet.

Find your grove and go with it. Pick up where you are and work it. Better that Jesus comes back and finds you working the plan He gave you on your way to acheiving... then sitting around lamenting the fact you aren't where you thought you were supposed to be.

I call you empowered 2 prosper with good success!


Darrell G. Wolfe
http://n2gs.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/n2goodsuccess

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Desire to Succeed

Desire to Succeed

One would think that everyone wants to prosper, succeed and do well in life. Unfortunately this is not true. Certainly most people wouldn't mind a hand out or a check in the mail for any amount. However statistics show 44% of lottery winners spend their entire winnings within 5 years. Why? They got money, but there was no change of heart. Their mindset never changed.

I talk to people for a living. Both in my "J.O.B." and in my other work efforts. I'm always amazed at the mix of people I talk to. There are actually very few that let me help them. Almost 98% could use my help. I would say less than 25% actually let me help. I'll take responsibility for some of that. Maybe I didn't help them understand by fully explaining my background, experience, and ability to help them. I didn't fully explain the reason I asked so many questions, which is that I want to make sure I'm fully accessing my years of experience and putting forth valuable suggestions that could forever alter the course and direction of their financial life, or at the very least enhance or clarify their financial life in some way.

It's rare that there is NOTHING I can do to help someone's finances. On the few occasions that there is nothing I can do it's usually because they have done such a great job planning or I just didn't ask enough questions because I'm human and I'm not always fully engaged in the conversation either. Most people that I can't help either fall into one or both of these two groups: Lack of Knowledge or Lack of Desire. 

Knowledge

Here's the thing. The vast majority of people I talk to I COULD help, but they don't want my help. Sometimes it's because they think they already know. They are calling with an agenda, asking questions trying to sound tough (when really their attitude is more from a fear of looking like they don't know what they're doing.). They brush me off and say things like: "Yeah Yeah Yeah... I know..." These all fall into the class of lacking knowledge. They may either lack knowledge and know it, or sometimes they don't know it.
Actually lack of knowledge isn't the hardest thing to overcome. Knowledge is readily available online for free to those who will take the time to search it out. I can direct them in many cases to great resources. With enough questions I can sometimes overcome their fear and lack of knowledge and ease their concerns and get them moving in the right direction.

Desire

Some people though... these are the ones that really bug me... they simply don't WANT to succeed in life. They may half heartedly wish to. They wouldn't mind a handout or lottery win. But they don't actually have any intention on prospering. Some people have been beat down for so long, either by life or people or both, that they have lost any will to do better. They have no hope.

I once knew a homeless man who had a background in ministry before falling into sin and going to jail. He had just been released. He told me that I would not be homeless myself very long, because I had what no-one else in the shelter had. "Hope". He told me that when I started ministering to these people that my biggest job would be to build their hope. Once Hope is birthed into a soul, and nurtured into a flame, all other keys to success begin to come more naturally to them. I talk to people who fall into one of three categories. 

1. Religious.There are a few people left out there who are still drinking Satan's cool-aid which confuses them into thinking that money is somehow evil or wrong to have. They have this twisted idea that being poor is a good thing or helps you stay humble. 
2. Next Beer Folks. They don't have any desire once so ever, other than to make it to their next day off, or even off their current shift, and make it home to a beer and TV. This isn't reserved for "Alcoholics" either. This is a whole class of people who just want the next small pleasure and have no desire or idea that they could have more, and wouldn't want to put the work into doing more if they did know they could. 
3. Just Enough Crowd. This is the worst crowd, often mixed in with the Religious crowd, but not always. This group says that they don't want to have "too much". They want "Just enough for me and mine". They have a little in savings and they're dong OK. They have no plans or desire to do bigger and better. They are satisfied with their little more than enough. This crowd often says that they have every intention of being exactly where they are next year and in five years. Status Quo. Don't rock the boat. 

Selfish

The bible is clear. We should be wealthy. The biggest reason is that God has work to do on this planet and we are the ones who He will do it through. It is through His children that He establishes His covenant on and in this earth. All three of the reasons listed above come down to selfishness. Focus on one's self and not taking into account the bigger picture. 


This is most true with the "just enough" excuse. What do you mean you want just enough for you and yours? You don't want to take "too much"? Too much what? You've taken too much when there is no-one on this planet that could use any more money or assistance. God gave this planet the ability to produce for anyone that would work it. Inventions, witty ideas, and more come to those who follow God's path.

What about the Strangers, Orphans, and Widows? You don't want to help them? What about your Pastor, Missionaries, Bibles that need to be taken around the world, people in prison who need to hear about Jesus... what about all the things God wants to do but no-one will believe God to get rich enough to fund them.

I personally believe that everyone who made excuses for not wanting too much will stand on judgment day accused of starving God's work. Here are just a few thoughts from the Word on Wealth:

Proverbs 13:22

22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

2 Corinthians 9

7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.


Deuteronomy 8:18

18 And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 28

1 "Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God: 3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country


1 Timothy 6:17

17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

Generosity

The whole point in our prosperity is for us to be so prosperous that we don't even think about our needs, wants, or desires... We are then so wrapped up in giving to others, benefiting others, and creating situations that empower others to prosper we forgot to think about ourselves entirely.

In his book "No More Monday's" Dan Miller makes a profound statement on this subject. He says that he has known the richest and poorest people in this country. He finds that the rich hardly ever talk about their money. Often they live in modest homes or lifestyles. They are average in appearance. The poor and broke, however, ALWAYS talk about money. They talk their lack of money all the time. They have money and their lack of it on the mind 24-7.

Matthew 6:24/Luke16:13

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

These poor people are serving money when money should be serving them. Thus they are unable to do all the things God has called them to do. You may not be called to preach, teach, write, or go on missions trips. But you are called to do something with your talents and abilities and giftings that benefit this world and bring people to God. If you are worried about money, you are hindered from doing that!

1 Timothy 6:10

10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

It's the poor, and those who are poor in mind, that are most guilty of the Love of Money. They talk about it all the time, they talk about their lack of it. They are the ones falling for "Get rich quick" schemes. Rich people, by and in large, don't do these things because they took the time to understand wealth, how to get it, keep it, grow it, use it... and they worked diligently to make these things work for them.

This is why socialism is so wrong. It's based on the premise that you can do nothing, or less, and still get the same reward as the one who worked harder than you. That is evil a twisted. God gives you things based on Jesus sacrifice. So in that sense He gives you things you don't deserve every day! But God is NOT interested in taking others hard work and giving it to you for nothing.

Lottery winners that spend their money did so because they had no idea what to do with it. They were focused on self. Had they been focused on what God wanted them to do they would have channeled that wealth into a regenerating income that would grow rather than shrink. This would have been a channel for great Kingdom use. Jesus told this to a rich young ruler, but he didn't wait around to hear the whole story. Had he stuck around he would have seen that Jesus wanted to get him off the world's system of wealth and transfer him to God's system of wealth. It's a different system with different principles.

Mark 10:17-30

17 Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" 18 So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. 19 You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and your mother.' " 20 And he answered and said to Him, "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth." 21 Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me." 22 But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 23 Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!" 24 And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." 26 And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, "Who then can be saved?" 27 But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible." 28 Then Peter began to say to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You." 29 So Jesus answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's, 30 who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life.

HOPE

How does one get hope? Where did my hope come from? It comes from the Word. Hope can't be taught or forced on someone. You cannot force someone to desire a better life. Hope can be caught, but not taught. You must see it's available, catch a glimmer from someone, and then cultivate it as a seed. 

That's why desire is harder to work with that knowledge. I can teach you things to do. But if you are not wanting to do better, I can't help you. You have to want to have a better life. Really want it. You may not have a firm expectation yet... but if you have even a glimmer of desire to have better I can work with that. We can fan that flame, through meditation on the Word of God and Preaching from anointed ministers and reading after successful people... It can burn brighter and brighter until you are more convinced on the inside that your days of lack are over than you are of anything you see on the outside.

That is the day things change. Nothing may have changed on the outside. But when you are convinced beyond any shadow of any doubt that God WANTS you prosperous and successful... there is nothing that will take you off it... Change has started, better is coming. It may come quick, it may come slow. Some of that will depend on your action. If you slip back into old habits of doing or thinking it may delay your prosperity... but that's ok... repent (change your mindset) and pick it back up again.

"There"

I'm not "There" yet either... I don't know if I'll ever be "There" really. Where is "There". The moment I set a realistic impossible goal and acheive it, God will have me setting new ones. Million becomes Billion becomes earth shattering... there is always a new level... Don't feel bad because you are not "There" yet.

Find your grove and go with it. Pick up where you are and work it. Better that Jesus comes back and finds you working the plan He gave you on your way to acheiving... then sitting around lamenting the fact you aren't where you thought you were supposed to be.

I call you empowered 2 prosper with good success!


Darrell G. Wolfe
http://n2gs.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/n2goodsuccess

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Bankings Basics for Believers; Now Available on Amazon. 
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