HOW TO MAKE MONEY YOUR FRIEND (PT. 2)
In
the concluding part of this discussion we started last week, I want to state
that financial tension is about the most effective stress point in the home. We
can’t do without money.
Do
you know that 16
out of 38 of Christ’s parables deal with money? Are you aware that more is said
in the New Testament about money more than heaven and hell combined, and that
five times more is said about money than prayer? Wouldn’t it interest you to
also know that while there are 500 plus verses on both prayer and faith, there
are over 2,000 verses dealing with money and possessions? If God wasn’t
interested in Christians being sufficiently informed about money, he wouldn’t
devote such space to talk about it in his Word.
Truth
is lack of money adversely affects the mind. Studies show that poverty reduces
our cognitive ability. For instance, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir measured farmers’ mental function a month before their harvests, a time they
were unhappy, and then again a month after, during which they were bubbling
with joy. You want to hear the findings? The same farmers performed worse
before the harvest, when they had little money, and better after the harvest,
when they had much more money.
In
a separate part of the study, the researchers had poor and fairly wealthy
participants think about money, and then determined the participants’ cognitive
performance. In this case, they discovered that when poor participants thought
about money, they performed worse. Well-off participants weren’t affected at
all.
However
you look at it, every one of us needs more buck. It gets life rolling. It
starts with nurturing a close
relationship with money to know more about it, how it works, and how we can attract
more of it continuously.
More Ways You Can Make Money Your
Friend
(4)
Don’t
think that it is bad to be rich or talk ill of it. The rich don’t think
that being rich makes one a devil. It is not wealth that is the root of evil;
it is the love of money that is the foundation of all bad things. In Part I of
this post, we saw how we can be friends with money without loving it. So see
money as good, and getting it as worthwhile.
(5)
Invest
time to think about what value to create and add to the world that will bring
about flow of more money into your life. If you want to have access to much more money, you should create
time daily, even if it means 15 to 30 minutes, to think of how you can create
more value to benefit humanity. In the just-published eBook, The Mind: Your Amazing Power To Take Big
Places, I have devoted a chapter to examine the attracting forces of our
thoughts.
(6)
Don’t
waste money. Control your expenses. No true friend likes wastages of any
kind, be it time, energy, or whatever. Money
always runs away from wasters. Those who can’t control it always lose it to
those who can.
Use
budget to cut down on unnecessary and avoidable expenditures. The rich don’t
spend on frivolities. Prioritize and streamline your expenses.
(7)
Save
money for future investment. One basic way to make money your friend
and attract a lot of wealth is to commit to regularly saving a portion of your
earnings for future investment. God
multiplies the seeds we sow, the money we invest (2 Corinthians 9:10). Wealth
answers to sowing and investment, not to prayers.
(8)
Don’t
envy, hate, or abuse others who are rich. The rich are those who have
successfully made money their friends. Rejoice with the wealthy, wish them well
in life. Why you don’t have to hate or abuse the wealthy if you want to be rich
is so that others won’t hate and abuse you because very shortly, you’re emerging
a financial star.
(9)
Don’t
throw it into the hands of unfriendly, uncaring hands. That is, don’t
put your money into ponzi schemes and money scams. Money is a very sensitive thing. If you check those who are rich
over a long period of time, they’re not victims of the swings of human
emotions, such as the greed urge. It
is those who fail to make friends with money that often fall victims of throwing
their hard-earned money into the unfriendly hands of money scammers.
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