ACTUALISE YOUR DREAMS AND VISIONS (PART 1)

Jan. 23^rd

TEXT: Eccl 9:10-11

¹⁰ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

¹¹ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

 Many of the time, most people are unable to actualize their dreams and vision because they have poor and sometimes, terrible financial policies. Too many Christians read their Bible with religious lens and as such are unable to see the lessons on finance and other aspects of life. A careful study of the Bible will reveal to you that Jesus spent time talking about financial principles than several other subjects of life. This is one reason why we need to pay attention to our attitude with finance. One problem with most people is the inability to control their spending habit.  Any one who does not want to end up in poverty, will not raise his expenditure to or above his income. The reason why so many of us are poor is that we have a bad spending habit. When some of us get a pay raise, or stumble on expected income, we quickly raise our expenditure to the same amount of increase or even beyond it. Worse than this, is the mentality to just buy things that we can live without. We do this because we have the buy now and pay later mentality. If you have this habit, you have entered into a covenant with poverty, for the Bible tells us that, “the borrower is a slave to the lender.” You take on the reputation of a slave when you borrow or buy on credit.

There are people who speak in tongues and can even command the fire of the Holy Spirit, but they are financial slaves. Do not use the flimsy excuse of not having enough income, because there are people whose income is far less than yours, but they are wise spenders. On the average, you should be able to generate some income, even without depending on a job, because sometimes, depending on a job could also give a slavish mentality.

We must go beyond thinking within the box to thinking outside the box.

You have a glorious destiny, don’t die a disgrace. Live!