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Stop Saving Money_ Do This Instead to Build Wealth (Biblically Proven_) · Bible Ascent

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  Speaker 1: What if I told you that the financial advice your
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  Speaker 1: parents gave you is bankrupting your future. What if the
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  Speaker 1: very habit you think is building security is actually guaranteeing
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  Speaker 1: your poverty. I know that sounds crazy, but stay with
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  Speaker 1: me for the next sixty seconds, because what I am
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  Speaker 1: about to reveal will shatter everything you thought you knew
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  Speaker 1: about money. Picture this right now, while you are watching
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  Speaker 1: this video, your savings account is being robbed, not by hackers,
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  Speaker 1: not by criminals, by something far more insidious inflation. Every
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  Speaker 1: single hour that your money sits in that account earning
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  Speaker 1: zero point five percent interest while inflation runs at six percent,
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  Speaker 1: you are losing five point five percent of your purchasing power.
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  Speaker 1: That means if you have ten thousand dollars saved, you
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  Speaker 1: just lost five hundred and fifty dollars this year by
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  Speaker 1: doing absolutely nothing. You worked hard for that money, and
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  Speaker 1: it is evaporating while you sleep. But here is what
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  Speaker 1: is even more disturbing. According to Jesus Christ himself, you
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  Speaker 1: might be committing a sin that he called wicked and lazy. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you heard that right. The same Bible that tells you
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  Speaker 1: to be wise with money also condemns a specific financial
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  Speaker 1: behavior that millions of Christians practice every single day, and
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  Speaker 1: I am going to show you exactly what that is
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  Speaker 1: and what to do instead. But before we go any further,
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  Speaker 1: I need you to do something critical right now. If
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  Speaker 1: you are tired of being stuck financially while doing everything
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  Speaker 1: the world tells you is right, smash that subscribe button
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  Speaker 1: and hit the notification bell. Why Because Bible assent is
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  Speaker 1: the only channel that is going to give you the raw,
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  Speaker 1: unfiltered truth about building way health, God's way, not the
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  Speaker 1: world's way. We are building a community of believers who
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  Speaker 1: refuse to accept poverty as their portion. And if this
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  Speaker 1: video challenges your thinking, hit that like button right now,
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  Speaker 1: because YouTube needs to show this message to more people
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  Speaker 1: who are trapped in the same cycle you have been in.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here is where this gets intense. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to imagine something with me. It is the first century.
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  Speaker 1: You are standing in a crowd listening to Jesus tell
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  Speaker 1: a story. He is talking about a wealthy man who
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  Speaker 1: is about to go on a long journey. Before he leaves,
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  Speaker 1: he calls three of his servants. To the first one,
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  Speaker 1: he hands five bags of gold to the second, two
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  Speaker 1: bags to the third. One bag, each according to their ability.
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  Speaker 1: Then he leaves. Now the first two servants immediately spring
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  Speaker 1: into action. They are not reckless, but they are bold.
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  Speaker 1: They take that money and put it to work. They trade,
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  Speaker 1: they invest, they take calculated risks, and here is the result.
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  Speaker 1: When the Master returns, both of them have doubled what
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  Speaker 1: they were given. The five became ten, the two became four.
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  Speaker 1: The Master is ecstatic. He throws them a party, promotes them,
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  Speaker 1: and gives them even more responsibility. But then comes the
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  Speaker 1: third servant. He walks up nervously and says, Master, I
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  Speaker 1: knew you were a hard man. I was afraid of
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  Speaker 1: losing what you gave me, so I took your money
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  Speaker 1: and I buried it in the ground. I kept it safe,
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  Speaker 1: I protected it, and here it is, every single penny,
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  Speaker 1: exactly as you gave it to me. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: grew up in church, you know this story. But let
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  Speaker 1: me ask you something. What do you think the Master said?
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  Speaker 1: Most people expect him to say, well, at least you
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  Speaker 1: did not lose it. Good job playing it safe. But
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  Speaker 1: that is not what happened. The Master exploded with anger.
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  Speaker 1: He called this servant wicked and lazy. He said, you
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  Speaker 1: should have at least put my money in the bank
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  Speaker 1: to earn interest. Then he took the one bag away
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  Speaker 1: and gave it to the servant who had ten. This
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  Speaker 1: is Matthew Chapter twenty five, verses fourteen through thirty, and
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  Speaker 1: this parable destroys the entire foundation of how most people
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  Speaker 1: think about money. The servant who played it safe, who
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  Speaker 1: protected the money, who made sure nothing bad happened to it,
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  Speaker 1: was condemned. Not the ones who risked it, not the
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  Speaker 1: ones who put it in motion, the one who buried
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  Speaker 1: it out of fear. Let me hit you with something
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  Speaker 1: that is going to make you uncomfortable. If you have
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  Speaker 1: money sitting in a savings account, earning basically nothing, and
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  Speaker 1: your primary reason for keeping it there is fear, you
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  Speaker 1: are that third servant. You are burying your talent in
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  Speaker 1: the ground. And according to Jesus, that is not wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: that is wickedness. Now I can already hear some of
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  Speaker 1: you getting defensive hold on. Are you telling me not
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  Speaker 1: to save anything? Are you saying I should be reckless
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  Speaker 1: with money? No, I am not saying that at all.
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  Speaker 1: There is a massive difference between wise stewardship and fearful hoarding.
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  Speaker 1: There is a difference between strategic reserves and stagnant stockpiles.
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  Speaker 1: And over the next several minutes, I am going to
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  Speaker 1: show you exactly how to tell the difference and what
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  Speaker 1: to do instead. See here is what most people miss.
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  Speaker 1: Money is not a static thing. It is a dynamic force.
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  Speaker 1: It is meant to flow like water, not sit like
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  Speaker 1: a rock. When water flows, it brings life. It nourishes crops,
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  Speaker 1: it generates power, It sustains ecosystems. But when water stops
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  Speaker 1: moving what happens? It becomes stagnant. It breeds disease, It
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  Speaker 1: turns into a swamp. Your money works the same way.
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  Speaker 1: When it flows strategically through investments, businesses, and kingdom purposes,
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  Speaker 1: it multiplies and brings life. When it sits stagnant in
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  Speaker 1: an account, it dies a slow death from inflation. Let
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  Speaker 1: me give you the framework that changed my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: I call it the shift from preservation to provision. Most
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  Speaker 1: people operate in preservation mode. Their entire financial strategy is
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  Speaker 1: built around one question, how do I protect what I have?
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  Speaker 1: But kingdom finances operate on a completely different question, how
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  Speaker 1: do I position myself to receive and multiply what God
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  Speaker 1: wants to give? Me. Preservation builds walls. Provision builds wells.
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  Speaker 1: Preservation creates a closed system where you white knuckle grip
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  Speaker 1: every dollar. Provision creates an open channel where resources flow
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  Speaker 1: through you to bless others and then multiply back to you.
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  Speaker 1: Pressed down, shaken together, and running over. Now, let me
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  Speaker 1: give you the four strategies that will transform you from
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  Speaker 1: a fearful savor into a faithful multiplier. These are not theories.
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  Speaker 1: These are biblical principles that I have personally tested, that
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  Speaker 1: I have seen work in the lives of hundreds of people,
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  Speaker 1: and that will work for you, regardless of whether you
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  Speaker 1: are starting with one hundred dollars or one hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Strategy number one, invest in kingdom wisdom before you invest
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  Speaker 1: in anything else. Proverbs chapter four, verse seven says wisdom
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  Speaker 1: is the principal thing. Therefore, get wisdom, and in all
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  Speaker 1: you're getting, get understanding. Notice it does not say get
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  Speaker 1: money first. It says get wisdom first. Here is why
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  Speaker 1: this is revolutionary. Your ability to earn is infinitely more
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  Speaker 1: valuable than any amount of money you currently have saved.
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  Speaker 1: Let me prove it to you with math. Imagine you
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  Speaker 1: have five thousand dollars in savings. If you leave it
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  Speaker 1: in a typical savings account, in ten years, it might
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  Speaker 1: grow to five thousand, seven hundred dollars. Congratulations, you made
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred bucks in a decade. But now imagine you
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  Speaker 1: take two thousand of that five thousand and invest it
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  Speaker 1: in learning a high income skill. Maybe you learn copywriting,
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  Speaker 1: web development, digital marketing, or real estate investing. Within six months,
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  Speaker 1: that skill increases your income by just two thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: per year. That is less than two hundred dollars per month.
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  Speaker 1: Very achievable. Over the next ten years, that extra two
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  Speaker 1: thousand per year equals twenty thousand dollars. But here is
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  Speaker 1: where it gets crazy. As you get better at that skill,
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  Speaker 1: your income does not stay fe flat. It compounds. By
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  Speaker 1: year three, you are making an extra five thousand per year,
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  Speaker 1: by year five, an extra ten thousand by year ten,
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  Speaker 1: that initial two thousand dollars investment in education has generated
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand dollars in additional income, and unlike
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  Speaker 1: money in a savings account, nobody can inflate away your skills,
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  Speaker 1: your knowledge, or your ability to create value. Solomon understood
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  Speaker 1: this at a level most people never reach. When God
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  Speaker 1: appeared to him in a dream and said, ask for
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want. What did Solomon request money, power, long life. No,
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  Speaker 1: he asked for wisdom, And because he prioritized wisdom above
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  Speaker 1: everything else, God said, since you asked for this and
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  Speaker 1: not for riches, I am going to give you both
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and riches beyond measure First Kings, Chapter three. This
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  Speaker 1: is a Kingdom principle. When you seek wisdom first, wealth
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  Speaker 1: follows as a natural consequence. But when you seek wealth first,
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  Speaker 1: you end up poor in both areas. I know people
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  Speaker 1: who have spent forty years working jobs they hate, saving
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  Speaker 1: every penny, and they have one hundred thousand dollars in
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  Speaker 1: the bank. I also know people who invested five thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars in their education five years ago and now make
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  Speaker 1: that one hundred thousand and annual income. Which would you
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  Speaker 1: rather be? Here is your action step for strategy Number one.
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  Speaker 1: Identify the one skill that would increase your income most significantly,
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  Speaker 1: not something random, something strategic. If you work in sales,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it is advanced negotiating training. If you are an entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it is marketing or finance. Then find the best course,
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  Speaker 1: the book or mentor in that area and invest in
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  Speaker 1: it this month, not next year. This month, take the
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  Speaker 1: money you were going to let sit idle, and deploy
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  Speaker 1: it into your most valuable asset, your mind. Strategy number
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  Speaker 1: two become a kingdom pipeline, not a storage tank. This
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  Speaker 1: is where it gets really practical. Tewod Corinthians, Chapter nine,
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  Speaker 1: verse ten says, now he who supplies seed to the
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  Speaker 1: sower and bread for food, will supply and multiply your
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  Speaker 1: seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: Did you catch that God gives us two different things,
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  Speaker 1: bread and seed. Bread is for consumption, seed is for multiplication.
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  Speaker 1: Most people make the critical mistake of treating all their
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  Speaker 1: money like bread. They consume everything, But why stewards understand
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  Speaker 1: that some of their money is seed, and seed is
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  Speaker 1: meant to be planted, not eaten. Here is the system
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  Speaker 1: that transformed my finances and the finances of everyone I
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  Speaker 1: have taught it to. Every time money comes into your hands,
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  Speaker 1: before you do anything else, divide it into three categories.
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  Speaker 1: Category one is the tithe and offerings. This is ten
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  Speaker 1: percent minimum as a tithe, plus whatever the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: prompts you to give. This goes to God first always
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  Speaker 1: non negotiable. Category two is consumption. This is your bread money.
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  Speaker 1: This covers your living expenses, bills, food, housing, transportation. Category
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  Speaker 1: three is multiplication. This is your seed money. This is
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  Speaker 1: capital that you will invest to create future harvests. Most
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  Speaker 1: people only have two categories. They tithe and then consume
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  Speaker 1: everything else. They have no seed money, which means they
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  Speaker 1: have no future harvest. This is why they stay broke
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  Speaker 1: year after year despite being faithful givers. Here is what
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  Speaker 1: I want you to commit to right now, starting with
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  Speaker 1: your very next paycheck, set aside at least ten percent
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  Speaker 1: as seed money. I do not care if it is
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  Speaker 1: ten dollars or ten thousand dollars. Start the habit. This
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  Speaker 1: money is not for emergencies, It is not for bills.
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  Speaker 1: It is for strategic investment into things that will multiply.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you about Sarah. She is a single
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  Speaker 1: mom working as a teacher, making forty eight thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: per year. After taxes, she takes home about three thousand
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  Speaker 1: per month. She heard this teaching and decided to implement it.
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  Speaker 1: She started setting aside ten percent of every paycheck as
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  Speaker 1: seed money. That is three hundred dollars per month for
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  Speaker 1: the first six months, she just let it accumulate while
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  Speaker 1: she learned about investing. She read books, watched videos, took
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  Speaker 1: a free online course about dividend investing. After six months,
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  Speaker 1: she had one thousand, eight hundred dollars saved as seed money.
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  Speaker 1: She opened a brokerage account and bought her first dividend
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  Speaker 1: paying stocks. Then she kept adding three hundred per month.
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward three years, her investment account has grown to
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  Speaker 1: twelve thousand dollars and generates about forty dollars per month
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  Speaker 1: in dividends. That might not sound like much, but here
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  Speaker 1: is what matters. She went from zero passive income to
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  Speaker 1: forty dollars per month and that number compounds every single
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  Speaker 1: year as she keeps adding to it and reinvesting the dividends.
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  Speaker 1: But here is the best part. Because she saw that
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  Speaker 1: seed money growing, it motivated her to find ways to
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  Speaker 1: increase her income. She started tutoring students on weekends, which
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  Speaker 1: brought in an extra six hundred per month. She put
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  Speaker 1: half of that into seed money. Now she is investing
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  Speaker 1: six hundred per month instead of three hundred. At this rate,
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  Speaker 1: in ten years, she will have over one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars invested generating thousands in passive income annually, all because
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  Speaker 1: she stopped treating every dollar like bread and started identifying
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  Speaker 1: her seed money. See when you become a pipeline instead
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  Speaker 1: of a tank, God can pour more through you because
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  Speaker 1: he knows it is going to keep flowing. Luke chapter six,
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty eight says, give and it will be given
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  Speaker 1: to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running
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  Speaker 1: over will be poured into your lap. Notice the promise
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  Speaker 1: is not save and it will be saved to you.
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  Speaker 1: The promise is give plant, So invest and it will
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  Speaker 1: come back. Multiplied Strategy Number three diversify like Solomon. Ecclesiastes
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  Speaker 1: chapter eleven, verse two says, cast your bread upon the waters,
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  Speaker 1: for you will find it after many days. Give a
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  Speaker 1: portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know
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  Speaker 1: not what disaster may happen on earth. This is one
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  Speaker 1: of the clearest investment strategies in the entire Bible, written
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  Speaker 1: by the wealthiest man who ever lived. Solomon is telling
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  Speaker 1: you do not put all your resources in one place,
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  Speaker 1: spread them across multiple streams. Why because you do not
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  Speaker 1: know what the future holds. One stream might dry up,
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  Speaker 1: but if you have seven or eight, you will still
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  Speaker 1: have income flowing. Let me paint a picture. Imagine you
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  Speaker 1: have twenty thousand dollars. Most people put all of it
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  Speaker 1: in one savings account, earning almost nothing. But what if
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  Speaker 1: you followed Solomon's strategy, You could allocate it like this.
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  Speaker 1: Four thousand stays in an emergency fund for true emergencies,
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  Speaker 1: four thousand goes into learning and skill development, four thousand
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  Speaker 1: goes into starting a side business or buying equipment that
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  Speaker 1: generates income. One thousand goes into dividend stocks. Four thousand
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  Speaker 1: goes into precious metals like gold or silver as a
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  Speaker 1: hedge against inflation. Now you have five streams instead of one.
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  Speaker 1: If the economy crashes, your stocks might drop, but your
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  Speaker 1: gold value increases. If inflation spikes, your business can raise
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  Speaker 1: prices while your cash loses value, but your skills remain valuable.
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  Speaker 1: You have created a diversified portfolio of provision. Solomon himself
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  Speaker 1: practiced this. He had income from his kingdom, from international trade,
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  Speaker 1: from his building projects, from agriculture, from tributes, multiple streams,
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  Speaker 1: and because he diversified, when one area faced challenges, the
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  Speaker 1: others sustained him. Here is your action step list out
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  Speaker 1: all your current income. And asset sources. For most people,
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  Speaker 1: it is just one a job. Then identify two or
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  Speaker 1: three additional streams you could develop in the next twelve months,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a side business, an investment account, a rental property,
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  Speaker 1: or a skill based freelance service. Start building those streams,
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  Speaker 1: even if they only generate a few hundred dollars per
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  Speaker 1: month at first, over time they will grow into rivers.
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  Speaker 1: Strategy number four. Build real assets, not paper promises. Here
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  Speaker 1: is something most people never consider. When you have money
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  Speaker 1: in a bank account, you do not own money. You
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  Speaker 1: own a promise from a bank that they will give
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  Speaker 1: you money when you ask for it. But that promise
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  Speaker 1: is in a currency that governments can print infinitely, devaluing
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  Speaker 1: everything you saved. Real wealth health is not numbers on
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  Speaker 1: a screen. Real wealth is assets that produce value, solve problems,
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  Speaker 1: and meet needs. Real wealth is land that grows food,
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  Speaker 1: equipment that creates products, skills that serve people, businesses that
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  Speaker 1: generate profit, knowledge that guides decisions, relationships that open opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you about Marcus. Five years ago, he
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  Speaker 1: had fifteen thousand dollars saved. He kept it in a
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  Speaker 1: savings account, feeling proud and secure, then he learned these principles,
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  Speaker 1: and everything changed. He kept three thousand as an emergency fund.
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  Speaker 1: He used four thousand to buy professional lawn care equipment
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  Speaker 1: and started a landscaping side business on weekends. He used
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  Speaker 1: three thousand to take courses on digital marketing and business.
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  Speaker 1: He invested five thousand in dividend stocks. Today, his landscaping
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  Speaker 1: business generates an extra two thousand per month profit during
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  Speaker 1: peak season. His marketing skills allowed him to double his
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  Speaker 1: income at his day job because he became more valuable.
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  Speaker 1: His stock portfolio has grown to nine thousand and pays
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  Speaker 1: monthly dividends. He went from fifteen thousand sitting idle to
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  Speaker 1: multiple assets working for him twenty four to seven. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the key. Every dollar he deployed is now multiplying.
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  Speaker 1: The equipment earns money every time he uses it. The
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  Speaker 1: skills earn money every time he applies them. The stocks
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  Speaker 1: earn money through dividends and growth. Meanwhile, his old approach
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  Speaker 1: would have left that fifteen thousand still sitting at fifteen thousand,
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  Speaker 1: except now worth twelve thousand in real purchasing power because
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  Speaker 1: of inflation. Proverbs chapter thirteen, verse eleven says wealth gained
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  Speaker 1: hastily will dwindle. But whoever gathers little by little will
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  Speaker 1: increase it. Notice it does not say whoever saves, It
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  Speaker 1: says whoever gathers. The Hebrew word there means to actively collect,
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  Speaker 1: to strategically accumulate with purpose. Now let me address the
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  Speaker 1: elephant in the room, because I know what some of
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  Speaker 1: you are thinking. But what about emergencies? What about being prepared?
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  Speaker 1: What about proverbs talking about the ants storing food? Great questions,
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  Speaker 1: and this is where we separate wisdom from foolishness. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you should have an emergency fund. I recommend three to
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  Speaker 1: six months of expenses in an easily accessible account. That
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  Speaker 1: is wisdom that is being prepared. But here is the key.
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  Speaker 1: Once you have that emergency fund established, everything beyond that
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  Speaker 1: should be deployed into multiplication, not left sitting out of fear.
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  Speaker 1: The ant does not gather food and then hoard it
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  Speaker 1: forever in fear. The ant gathers strategically, stores wisely, and
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  Speaker 1: then uses those resources when winter comes. The ant is
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  Speaker 1: a multiplier, not a hoarder. There is a massive difference
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  Speaker 1: between wise preparation and fearful hoarding. Wyse preparation says I
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  Speaker 1: am going to have reserves for emergencies and planned expenses.
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  Speaker 1: But I am going to aggressively deploy my excess capital
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  Speaker 1: into growth because my security is in God, not in
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  Speaker 1: my bank account balance. Fearful hoarding says, I am going
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  Speaker 1: to keep piling up cash because no amount ever feels
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  Speaker 1: like enough, and I am terrified of losing what I have.
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  Speaker 1: The difference is not in the amount you save. The
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  Speaker 1: difference is in your heart, posture, and your strategy. One
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  Speaker 1: builds a closed system based on fear. The other builds
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  Speaker 1: an open system based on faith and wisdom. Psalm twenty
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  Speaker 1: three says, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
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  Speaker 1: David did not say my savings account is my shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: He said, the Lord is my shepherd. When God is
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  Speaker 1: truly your source, you can take calculated risks because you
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  Speaker 1: know your provision does not depend on your perfect financial decisions.
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  Speaker 1: It depends on your faithful stewardship and God's supernatural blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Let me bring this full circle with one final thought
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  Speaker 1: that will change everything. Your wealth is not about you.
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  Speaker 1: It was never meant to be about you. It is
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  Speaker 1: about the kingdom. It is about the lives you can touch,
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  Speaker 1: the people you can employ, the ministries you can fund,
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  Speaker 1: the problems you can solve, the value you can create.
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  Speaker 1: When you shift from saving for yourself to multiplying for
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom, everything changes. Your motivation changes from fear to purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Your strategies change from hoarding to investing. Your results change
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  Speaker 1: from stagnation to exponential growth. Here is what happened to
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  Speaker 1: that third servant in the parable. The Master took his
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  Speaker 1: one talent and gave it to the servant who had ten.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus said something profound. For to everyone who has
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  Speaker 1: more will be given, and he will have an abundance.
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  Speaker 1: But from the one who has not, even what he
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  Speaker 1: has will be taken away. Matthew, Chapter twenty five, verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine. This is not about God playing favorites. This
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  Speaker 1: is about stewardship. When you prove faithful to multiply what
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  Speaker 1: God gives you, he entrusts you with more. When you
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  Speaker 1: bury it out of fear, even what you have will
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  Speaker 1: be taken. That is not a threat. That is how
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom economy works. So here is my final challenge
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  Speaker 1: to you, and I need you to be honest with yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to keep being the third servant playing
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  Speaker 1: it safe watching inflation rob you blind while convincing yourself
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  Speaker 1: you are being wise, or are you going to step
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  Speaker 1: into the identity God has called you to as a multiplier,
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  Speaker 1: as a steward, as someone who takes what he gives
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  Speaker 1: and turns it into something that advances his kingdom. The
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  Speaker 1: choice is yours, but the consequences are eternal. The servants
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  Speaker 1: who multiplied experienced joy, promotion, and abundance. The servant who
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  Speaker 1: buried his talent experienced loss, judgment, and regret. Which servant
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  Speaker 1: will you be? If this message has shaken you, if
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  Speaker 1: it has exposed areas where you have been operating in
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  Speaker 1: fear instead of faith, I need you to take action
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  Speaker 1: right now. First comment below with these three words, I
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  Speaker 1: am a multiplier. Say it out loud, Declare it publicly.
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  Speaker 1: Let it become your new financial identity. Second, smash that
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  Speaker 1: like button so YouTube shows this message to more believers
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  Speaker 1: who need to break free from the poverty mindset that
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  Speaker 1: has kept them stuck. Third, subscribe to Bible Assent and
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  Speaker 1: turn on notifications because we are releasing videos every single
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  Speaker 1: week that will equip you to build wealth God's way,
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  Speaker 1: steward resources with wisdom and multiply your impact for the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: This is not just about money. This is about your calling.
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  Speaker 1: This is about your purpose. This is about stepping into
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of what God created you to be. You
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  Speaker 1: were not made to live in constant financial stress. You
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  Speaker 1: were not made to hoard resources out of fear. You
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  Speaker 1: were made to be a conduit of God's provision, a
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  Speaker 1: multiplier of his resources, a steward who can be trusted
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  Speaker 1: with much because you have been faithful with little. The
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  Speaker 1: question is not whether you can do this. The question
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  Speaker 1: is will you do this? Will you take that first
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  Speaker 1: step today? Will you identify your seed money? Will you
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  Speaker 1: invest in wisdom? Will you start building multiple streams? Will
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  Speaker 1: you convert cash into productive assets. God is not looking
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  Speaker 1: for perfect people. He is looking for faithful stewards. He
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  Speaker 1: is looking for people who will take risks for the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: He is looking for multipliers, not hoarders. That is you.
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  Speaker 1: That is who you were created to be. Now go
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  Speaker 1: prove it. Stop saving and start multiplying your future. Self
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  Speaker 1: will thank you, the Kingdom will benefit, and God will say,
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  Speaker 1: well done, good and faithful servant. Now let's get to work.