MONEY AS IT IS

» Posted by on Jun 5, 2015 in BECOMING WHO YOU WANT TO BE, The Word | 0 comments

Francis Baker once said that “Money is a good servant but a bad master”.

What if you didn’t have to worry about paying bills or affording the holidays?
What if you didn’t have to worry about money at all?
What if money didn’t matter to you and you could live life on your own terms?
What if you had enough to make a difference in the lives of others?
What if money served you and you were its master?

Gen 41:29-36 “There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt” Now therefore let Pharaoh select a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. ….. and take the fifth part of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plenteous years…. and let them keep it. That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine which are to befall the land of Egypt”

So it is not a question of IF but WHEN. It is not a question of whether the rainy season comes or not, but a matter of how long the rainy season would last for.
There will always be seasons of plenty and seasons of famine in life. Think of it this way, the weatherman never worries if there would be autumn this year, or winter or spring or summer, but his question is always how many days each season would last for.

If you had a ball that could show you tomorrow and you saw hard times looming ahead, how much money would you save for those times?
How much would you keep if you were certain that what you had in your account was the last you’ll earn in a very long time?

“That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine which are to befall the land” The famine is the rainy day, the time of scarcity, and a time of want.
Someone once asked me, ‘Jide what is the rainy day, and how should I prepare for this rainy day?
“Take the fifth part of the produce of the land…… during the seven plenteous years…. and keep it”
Determine to keep some and not spend all, because it’s not what you make but what you keep that matters.

According to recent statistics in UK however, 20 percent of people polled relied on nothing but their monthly wages to cope. They have no funds to dip into if thing goes wrong and no savings if extra costs spring up out of the blue.
Figures released by Scottish widows’ show that 1 in 5 people have ‘no savings’ at all! Up to 60 percent of the population have less than £1,000 savings.
Analysts say that stagnated wages have been one of the reasons that many people cannot find the extra cash to save as they are just scraping by to pay their bills.

In the USA, 76 percent of Americans are living from one pay check to another.
More than 30 percent of all working-age adults haven’t managed to save any money toward retirement, according to a new survey.
They found that 26 percent of people 50-to-54-year-olds and 14 percent of those aged 65 and older have ‘no savings’.
The survey of over 1,000 adults living across the U.S. also found that 69 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds and a third of 30-to-49 year-olds have yet start putting something away for their later years.
Just 30 percent of the population have less than $1,000 saved.

The no1 fear of most people in the world today? Outliving their savings and relying on family and government for assistance in old age. Most people are afraid that Medicare and State welfare may not be around anymore at their old age.
So is the problem that most people have not enough or that most people are not disciplined enough?

There are three types of money: one to pay yesterday’s debts, one to pay today’s debts and one to pay tomorrow’s debts.
Do you have enough for yesterday, today and tomorrow?
Are you ready for tomorrow while living today and managing yesterday?

Someone said what if I don’t have enough? Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that “Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money was not scarce?”
Even the rich struggle with the seasons, but they find a way with money when it is not enough, just enough or more than enough

My question to you is, what do you do with not enough, just enough and more than enough?
I’ll close today with this verse of scripture: “And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work”

Is this not what most people really desire? To have more than enough in order to make a difference in the society? Let me come back again next week, money is the subject and how to handle it all seasons is our priority

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