When I was in high school, I heard a sermon that changed my approach to my finances forever. I heard a deep and powerful truth that rocked and changed the very foundation of what I believed and changed every thought about money that I had.
I, like a lot of other people had aways looked at myself as someone who was on the journey to becoming rich. The journey to success essentially means the journey to becoming rich.
However, after I heard this sermon I realized that I am already rich by faith the same way that I am the righteousness of God by faith.
("For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." - 2nd Corinthians 5: 21 )
The same way I had become a child of God by faith - a younger brother to Jesus Christ by faith. In that same way I had become rich.
It is written that he (Jesus) became poor for our sakes that we through his poverty might become rich. ( 2nd Corinthians 8: 9 )
If I have faith that he paid the price for my sins so I won't have to pay for them and if I have faith that by his stripes I am healed, then, I must also have faith that I am rich even though there may be no money in my pocket.
No matter the state of my bank account I still believe the word. I still stand firmly on the word. I am not struggling to believe God's word, I just believe it.
You can't catch me saying I'm poor or complaining to somebody and saying their isn't enough money in my pocket. I speak wealth. I speak prosperity. I speak abundance. I refuse to speak lack.
If somebody says I'm poor I tell them that's a lie because I'm rich.
I think rich. I cannot think like poor people. When they say all the poor people in the room raise up your hand so we can give you some money I don't put up my hand.
When Americans are thinking of sending money to Africa and Africans start rejoicing because of the free food and money they are about to get, I sit apart from them and think of sending money to America to help all those poor and even the middle class people in America.
I refuse to think like the poor. I refuse to accept poverty because I have realized that because of what Christ did for me I AM NOT THE POOR TRYING TO GET RICH, I AM THE RICH SENT TO MAKE OTHERS RICH.
If I'm asked if I'm rich I always say, Yes!
You may say that I'm lying but the truth is I would be lying if I said that I was poor, because God has already made me rich.
Look, even those who do not even believe in Christ but are rich believe that being rich starts with your mind and not your bank account.
Let me ask you a question, when a king takes off his crown and royal robes at night to sleep does it mean he is no more a king? Ok! How about princes and princesses through history whose fathers where killed, their father's kingdom raided and destroyed and their people either taken away as prisoners of war or they escaped to far away lands, yet the princes and princesses of such places escaped to another kingdom they had good relations with and they were still treated as royalty. They were still treated and attended to like princes and princesses even though they had lost every single thing they had. They had no money but were still royalty.
Royalty is not about what you have, it's about who you are.
Being rich is not about what you have in your pocket or bank account, it's about who you are. What you have can be taken away from you but who you are can never be taken away from you.
What you have inside you cannot be taken away from you. The knowledge you have inside you cannot be taken away from you by any robber, any fraudster or any government.
If you have the knowledge on how to make money, it can never be taken away from you.
I now define success differently. To me, success means HELPING OTHERS. It is that simple. Do you help people? If Yes, then you are a success.
You may say King, if you think you are rich why then do you still wake up in the morning and make more money. The answer is simple: GROWTH.
When we stop growing, we start dying.
I don't make money in other to become rich. I make money to increase upon what I already have.
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Thanks & God bless.
Alfred Benjamin King.
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If you’ve been touched by what you just read and you’ve never given your heart to Jesus before but now want to become a Christian, please say this prayer and mean it with all your heart.
“Oh Lord God, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ. Your word says, ‘… whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Acts 2:21)
So now I ask Jesus to come into my heart to be the lord of my life. I receive eternal life into my spirit and according to Romans 10: 9, ‘That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved’ , Therefore I declare that I am saved; I am born – again; I am a child of God! I now have Christ dwelling in me, and greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world! (1 John 4:4). I now walk in the consciousness of my new life in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!”
PRAYER FOR THE RETURNING BACK SLIDER (ONLY):
“Oh lord God, I ask for your mercy and forgiveness for turning my back on you. I come back to you today in total sincerity and like the parable of the prodigal son, I thank you for receiving me back with Joy and Gladness.
I confess that Jesus Christ is the lord of my life and God the father is my Daddy. Hallelujah!”
PRAYER TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT:
“Oh Father, I thank you now for making me born again. For making me your child.
I ask that you give me your Holy Spirit to live in me and with me. For your word says that you would freely give the Holy Spirit to all those who ask. I open my heart and receive, and I know by faith that you have given me your Holy Spirit. Thank you Father. In Jesus name. Amen.”
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE NOW A CHILD OF GOD. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY OF GOD.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alfred Benjamin King is a full time writer & illustrator who obviously loves writing and drawing with all his heart.
He also loves music and so makes songs in his bedroom every once in a while.
He lives as though he’s retired early and retired rich. His bread comes from the fact that he is a business investor who God has blessed with wisdom.
He is one of the leading Christ – Minded writers in both fiction and non – fiction today.
His contribution to literature is extra ordinary. He created two new genres of literature namely, “D.I.P” and “S+C.S”
His literally works and special projects have gone spiral on the web; wheeling in an ever increasing number of views per post.
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