Profits Are Better Than Wages by Jim Rohn

My mentor, when I was 25 years old, dropped a phrase on me that changed my life forever when he said, “Profits are better than wages. Wages will make you a living. Profits can make you a fortune.”

You know it is a bit difficult to get rich on wages, but anybody can get rich on profits. Profits change your whole attitude, even if you start part time—whether it’s part time on your entrepreneurial business, network marketing company or service business.

It can be a landscape business in the summer or hanging Christmas lights in the winter. It can be training, consulting or tutoring. It can be your hobby, such as painting, writing, crafts, woodworking, computers or cooking. But once you start investing even part-time effort into your own business, you will find how much more exciting it is to get up in the morning and go to work on your fortune, even if you’re only spending a few hours a week doing it.

How empowering it is to be able to go to work on your fortune every day rather than going to work to pay the rent. Now it is noble to go to work to pay the rent, but if you could also parcel out part of your time, go to work to make your fortune. Your whole attitude changes. Your spirit changes. It is in your voice. It is in your face. It is in your gestures. And then you can say, “I am now working full time on my job and part time on my fortune because I found a way to make profits.” Wow!

And I will know what you mean. 

How to Be a Real Success

The story of the Good Samaritan in the Scriptures illustrates the difference between a success and a failure. A man was robbed, beaten and eventually left to die alongside the road. A priest saw the need and passed by. A Levite saw the need and continued his journey without helping. A Samaritan, a most unlikely helper, saw the need and went the extra mile to meet the need. Seeing the need drew the Good Samaritan into action.

If you desire success in your life, you must turn your attention away from yourself toward helping others. Failures think and talk continually about themselves. Successful people always think about adding value to other people. Dr. John C. Maxwell expressed this truth when he stated, “Many people who struggle with chronic failure do so because they think of no one but themselves.”

Jim Rohn: Thriving Through the Holidays

The holidays are upon us; a time of celebration and joy. I love the last days of November through the beginning of the New Year. The pure magic of the holidays is something that I anticipate and enjoy each and every year.

For some though, the holidays have lost the joy and excitement they at other times have had. The pace of life has grown so fast—much faster than those first holidays I remember in my life—that some people don’t enjoy the times they get to spend with their family and friends during what is supposed to be days filled with joy and peace.

Why is that? Probably a lot can be laid at the feet of how fast-paced our times are, but that isn’t all.

I believe our holiday times should be wonderful and filled with lasting and enjoyable moments and memories. So how can we ensure that we come out of the holidays in January with great memories of the past month? Here are six thoughts that will help you experience the holidays the way they were intended to be experienced:

Be Temperate
Holidays can be days of excess for many—too much food, too many cookies and treats. Too much chocolate, schedules that are too busy. One thing that will help you enjoy the holidays is to be temperate. Enjoy the food. Enjoy the treats. Enjoy the busy schedule of activities and parties. But also be disciplined enough to know when to hold back, when to say, “No.” When we go overboard we regret it and lose the opportunity to fully experience that moment. But when we enjoy a little and refrain from going too far, then we can enjoy all that little piece of time has to offer.

It’s Better To Give by Zig Ziglar

“When Wally Jansen told me about my new company’s Christmas ‘trip to the island’ tradition,” says Phillip Kelly,  “I was intrigued.  Ten days before Christmas the two hundred Puerto Rican families in this particular parish would gather and each family would place five dollars in the ‘pot,’ which was about a day’s pay for a fruit picker back then.  Each family would write its name on a slip of paper.  Then they would blindfold someone to draw the name of the family that would get to go home for Christmas – two glorious weeks on the island, and enough money to buy Christmas presents for everyone.  I went to the drawing that year, my first Christmas with the community, but it was going to be Wally Jansen’s last.  Wally was retiring after working forty years with the company, and for the last 25 he had been the canning factory foreman.

POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS

You are the architect of your future. Whatever you envision is possible, simply through the power of thoughts. As a businessman, worker, student, pastor or whatever your vocation, your life will gravitate or be pulled towards your dominant thoughts. In other words, your life will only move in the direction of your thoughts. You can’t cheat God; what you sow is what you reap. If your thoughts are thoughts of defeat and failure, what do you think you’ll get? You’ll get exactly what your mind has been dwelling on, whether consciously or unconsciously.

REFUSE TO GIVE UP

Are you going through tough times in your life and you feel like giving up? If yes, then consider this: William Harvey laboured for eight years to prove how blood circulated in the human body, and it took the medical profession another twenty-five years to prove he was right. Thomas Edison experienced 10,000 failures before he perfected the light bulb, an invention you and I are enjoying today. What about John Creasey who received 743 refusals from publishing houses before his first novel was accepted. Yet, he became a famous and prolific novelist who eventually went on and published 560 books, which have sold more than 60 million copies.

God Wants You To Bless Your World

God Wants You To Bless Your World · f r i d a y , j a n u a r y 6th · Page Visits (1,340)

Pastor Anita

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth (Ephesians 4:28).

God wants you to bless your world! That’s the reason He wants you to work with your hands, not because you’ll go hungry if you don’t. Jesus said: "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" (Matthew 6:26). If the birds and beasts don’t work and yet never go hungry, because God takes care of them, how much more will He take care of you, His peculiar treasure! God can take care of you. He however wants you to work so you can contribute to the development of your world.
As a child of God, you should never be idle. Even if you don’t have a job yet, find something you’re good at; something that’s good for God and good for people, and start doing it. Don’t let this month go by without you doing something. Find a need, and reach out to meet it. It doesn’t matter how menial you might think your present job or assignment is, do it with dignity and excellence. Don’t be ashamed of what you do, and never look down on yourself. Remember, you’re a child of God, and through you, the blessing comes  on whatever you’re involved in.
The Bible tells us that through a slave named Joseph, the blessing came on Potiphar’s house (Genesis 39:5). No matter what you do, let it be done excellently and for the betterment of your world. Become committed to making the world around you a better place. Let those around you feel your impact; let them be happy that God brought you their way. Your job is your door to the world; your opportunity to express yourself and the perfections God has deposited within you.
Psalms 139:14 says you’re "…fearfully and wonderfully made…." That means you’re one of a kind; a creation of complexity and wonder, not easily explained; that’s what you are. There’s so much within you that the world can benefit from. That’s why you have to make up your mind to be the best of you; for God wants to bless the world through you. 
Prayer

Dear Father, I recognize my vocation and skills as avenues you’ve created for me to bless my world. Thank you for increased grace and ability to positively impact my world as I live gloriously for you, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

f u r t h e r s t u d y: Genesis 12:2; 1 thessalonians 4:11-12

Rule Over Your Spirit · t h u r s d a y

Rule Over Your Spirit · t h u r s d a y , j a n u a r y 5th · Page Visits (1,949)

Pastor Chris

Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control (Proverbs 25:28 NIV).

Someone once asked me "Pastor Chris, how do I get over my addictions? I have tried speaking to them but I am still tempted to do the same things. What should I do?" First, you’re not supposed to be speaking to your addictions, but to yourself. You can talk to your addictions all year long, but nothing will change. Secondly, you have to add some other qualities to your faith; such as temperance; this will help you gain the mastery over any addiction.
What anyone who’s struggling with addiction needs is to exercise rule over his spirit. You declare to yourself "I have self-control and I am going to put it to work; I have rule over my spirit." When you make such declarations, it will pilot you and help you bring your thoughts, will, emotions and physical senses into subjection to the Word of God. The word translated ‘rule’ in Hebrew is ‘matsar’ and is akin to the Greek word "Egkrateia" which means temperance or self-control. It’s restraint exercised over one’s own impulses, emotions or desires. It means to hold oneself in.
2 Peter 1:5-6 says "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance…." God wants you to have rule over your spirit, that’s why He put these beautiful qualities in your spirit to make you fruitful always.
The Apostle Paul in Galatians 5:22-23 lists temperance as a feature of your recreated human spirit: "But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." No Christian should say "Well, I can’t control my desires" or "I have no rule over my spirit." What you need do is to let your spirit gain the mastery. Through the agency of the Word of God and the influence of God’s Spirit, your spirit is regulated to gain the mastery over your mind, body and emotions.
Prayer
Dear Father, I declare that I am not under servitude to any attitude, habit, addiction or lifestyle that is inconsistent with your perfect will for me. I allow your Word to have full control over my spirit, soul and body; I have the ability to make the right judgments and choices in Jesus’ Name. Amen. f u r t h e r s t u d y: 2 Peter 1:5-9; Proverbs 16:32