An Important Truth Known by the Wealthy...

There’s an important truth that wealthy people understand…

Not only do they understand it, they’ve done everything that’s necessary to make sure they are on the RIGHT side of this truth…

This truth is easy to understand. Here it is:

Those who do not promote, market, and sell both the value they themselves possess along with some useful product or service will ALWAYS be at the mercy of those who do.

Like I said, it’s easy to understand but only wealthy people have implemented this truth in their lives.

Notice the requirements: promotion, marketing, selling, possessing value, salable product or service.

To be truly wealthy (meaning that you can generate significant income in spite of other people, the economy, the stock market, or any other outside “tyrant”), you’ve got to meet ALL the requirements!

For example, if you’re working in a job, you obviously possess some value or your employer wouldn’t keep you on the payroll. But, because you aren’t meeting ALL the requirements, YOU’RE AT THE MERCY OF YOUR EMPLOYER!

Your employer decides what they’re going to pay you – not you. Your employer decides when you can get a raise – not you. Your employer decides if you’re eligible for a promotion – not you. Your employer decides what work you’re going to do – not you. Your employer decides where you’re going to work – not you. Your employer decides when you have to be at work and when you can leave work – not you.

No doubt, you could continue on with a lot of other things that your employer decides for you but the obvious point is that YOU are at the mercy of your employer.

In contrast, wealthy people DO NOT allow themselves to stay in a position where someone else makes their choices for them. Rather, they are ALWAYS working towards gaining more control over their choices so that they may ENJOY GREATER FREEDOM.

Plus, wealthy people have something exciting to get out of bed for…they get to “go to work” in an environment where they can give AND receive – where they can give value and receive just compensation for that value.

And, in the event that an unpleasant relationship crops up, wealthy people just FIRE that person – they eliminate them from their dealings – because there are simply too many good people to do business with to mess around with users, takers, trouble-makers, slackers, negativists, or any other kind of problem-person.

Now, let’s consider a couple of erroneous ideas that many people have…

Fallacy #1: To become more successful, a person must get an advanced education and obtain a higher degree.

The truth is that while a degree will usually open the way up to better opportunities (because you have increased your “value” to some extent) you are still yet at the mercy of others. In contrast, the person who has no university degree whatsoever but has developed a “street smart business savvy” by interacting with lots of people to find out what products or services they would readily pay for and developing the corresponding promotion, marketing, and sales skills to be able to pull it off will soon enough gain both personal and financial independence.

Fallacy #2: To become wealthy, a person has to invent something.

The truth is that being just an inventor will never make you wealthy. In fact, right now, there are thousands of people who’ve invented all sorts of interesting and useful things – and they’ll never get beyond poverty level. Why? It’s because money comes from other people – not from a product.

A product without an interested audience is worthless. In contrast, an audience of people who like you and trust you to bring them the products or services they want is worth millions or even billions.

That’s why wealthy people are always building and developing a network – an audience – of people that they have a positive relationship with – and that’s why they’re always asking questions of those people – seeking to find out what’s important to them – seeking to find out what they want. Then, they go find someone who has what their audience wants and resells it to them for a profit – or if they can’t find it, then they create it for their audience.

Ok, let’s look at this truth one more time…

Those who do not promote, market, and sell both the value they themselves possess along with some useful product or service will ALWAYS be at the mercy of those who do.

Maybe, as you consider this truth against your own situation, you realize that you’re on the WRONG side of this truth. Maybe, you realize that it’s now time to begin the transition over onto the RIGHT side. If so, right where you’re at, begin to learn what you need to learn, begin to develop the skills you need to develop, begin to build an audience of people who like and trust you. As you develop this audience, seek for product and or service ideas. Soon enough, you’ll move away from being at the mercy of other people and towards having independence and freedom – both personally and financially.

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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The Marketing Formula – Part 4

Want to know how to move from break-even (working for $0) in your business? Want to know how to generate HUGE profits in your business? Then pay attention because I’m going to reveal the answer to these questions.

There are far too many business who never “get” what I’m about to reveal to you – which is exactly why there are so many struggling businesses and why there are so many companies that go out of business.

So what’s this big “secret” that these companies don’t know?

It’s called a BACK-END.

What’s a back-end?

Well, there are many variations. Let’s take a look at some of them:

1. When a customer buys your product A, you immediately start selling them on a similar and related product B. As soon as they buy product B, you start selling them on a similar and related product C. If they don’t buy product C within a designated time, you start selling them on a similar and related product D.
2. When a customer buys your product A, you immediately start selling them on variation B and then variation C and so on. Book of the month or video of the month type clubs are a good example of this model.
3. When a customer buys your product, they get a N day supply. Then, in N days, you bill them again and ship them another limited supply. Or, in N days, they come back into your shop for a new supply. Herbs, supplements, and health supplies are an example of this model. Your grocery store is another example.
4. When your customer buys your product, you immediately start selling them on a bigger version. When they buy the bigger version, you start selling them on an even bigger version. This model is seen a lot in the consulting / coaching world where they sell you into the “Bronze” club. Then, they try to up-sell you to the “Silver” club. Then the Gold club, then the Gold+ club, then the Platinum club, etc.
5. When a customer buys your product, you immediately start selling them other products that are “down-stream” from what they just bought. For example, if a person has just purchased a domain name, then we can reasonably assume they are looking to develop a web-presence. Based on this, they are likely to be interested in website hosting services, webpage design services, shopping cart services, Internet-based marketing advice, and so on.
6. Customers sign up to use your services or facilities and you bill them for usage charges at an appropriate interval. Your telephone and electricity service providers are examples of this model.

Here’s the deal. Obtaining a new customer typically consumes a lot of time, energy, and resources.

Why? Someone who has never done business with you doesn’t know if they can trust you. They don’t know if your product is any good. They don’t know if you will deliver on time. They have a slew of things they don’t know about you and your business that have to be overcome before they will purchase from you.

So, if you only have a one-shot product with no back-end, you will continually face the up-hill battle of finding a new prospect and overcoming all of their objections in order to make a sale.

A much, much easier business model is to make sure that you have a back-end in place so that you can sell each customer (who already knows you and trusts you) over and over and over.

Consumables, memberships, usage fees, related products or services, or advanced / bigger versions are all concepts that you can use to create a back-end of products and services in your business so that you move from break-even to hugely profitable. And by all means, use as many of these back-end concepts as you possibly can.

By the way, there is an important side-implication here. If you have what you think is a great business idea but there's no back-end to it, forget about it. It's NOT a good business idea if there isn't a back-end.

Similarly, if someone approaches you with a business proposition, and it doesn't have a great back-end, send them on down the road because it's not a good proposition.

Here's why this concept of back-end is important to you. An OK product with a GREAT back-end can turn you into a Millionaire For Jesus much more quickly than you might ever imagine.

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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The Marketing Formula – Part 3 (A Fundamental Shift)

I want to point out something very, very powerful and important. What I am about to reveal to you SHOULD result in a fundamental and critical SHIFT in YOUR way of thinking.

Once you have put the first piece of The Marketing Formula in place, meaning that you have put forth the effort to create a MONEY-SOURCE (a customer list)…

YOU NEVER HAVE TO PAY FOR ANYTHING AGAIN!

Your MONEY-SOURCE will pay for everything you want.

Do you want something for you or your family?

Do you want to do something for the Kingdom of God?

All you have to do is create or acquire a product or service that your MONEY-SOURCE wants and make it available to them.

How much money you want determines how much or how many of a product or service you need to make available to your MONEY-SOURCE.

The more valuable your product or service is to your MONEY-SOURCE, the more money they’ll give you. The bigger the problem is that your product or service solves, the more money your MONEY-SOURCE will give you. It’s as simple as that.

If you think about it, you are a MONEY-SOURCE for others. How much of your money that you give them is based upon how much value you feel they give you. There are some who give you very little value and consequently, you give them very little of your money. But those who provide you with much value, you give them much of your money.

Obviously, the trick to getting all of this to work for you is for you to make sure you have created a MONEY-SOURCE and to make sure you come up with products and services that your MONEY-SOURCE really wants. These are subjects I’ll talk about later.

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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The Marketing Formula – Part 2

Back to the subject of Marketing. In this post, I want to discuss the second part of The Marketing Formula first so that you can develop a better understanding of the importance of the first part. The second part of The Marketing Formula is: “Communicating With Your Customer List In The Right Way At The Right Time”. Here’s what you do:

1. Get potential customers to express their interest in your product or service by offering them something that is valuable, important, interesting, and meaningful to them for free. Your free offer can be a special report, a free e-Book or book, a CD or DVD, a sample, or anything that is relevant to your product or service and a problem your potential customer is having that they desperately want to resolve. Your “payment” is the prospective customers contact information and permission to have further communications with them.
2. On an ongoing, non-negotiable, no-excuses basis, use traditional ways (direct mail, email, press releases, advertisements, etc.) as well as new and creative ways to present your free gift offer to as many prospective customers as you possibly can.
3. At an appropriate interval (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly), send useful, helpful, valuable, and interesting information to your contacts. At the bottom of your communication piece, extend an offer for a product or service that is fairly low cost – say in the $20-$50 range. Ideally, you’ll have a number of offers in this low-price range so that if one offer doesn’t grab your potential customer, another one will.
4. As soon as a prospective customer buys one of your low-price offers, he or she immediately move into a new list where you start promoting bigger, similar, related, or more advanced products that cost around $100.
5. As soon as a customer purchases your $100 product, they immediately move into a new list where you start promoting bigger, similar, related, or more advanced products that cost around $200.
6. As soon as a customer purchases your $200 product, they immediately move to a list where you are promoting a $500 product, and then a $1,000 product, then a $1,500 product, then a $2,000 product. The ceiling to how high you can go is limited to only your creativity and your ability to provide value. There are programs that members pay $1,000,000 per year to be a part of. And, these people who pay these membership fees feel it’s worth every penny they pay to be a part of them.

Now, I’ll acknowledge that it’s sometimes quite difficult to develop a progressive customer relationship like this and that some businesses are more suited to this type of progression than others. But that doesn’t take away from the importance of structuring your business this way – even when you don’t think you can, you can… if you’ll get creative. God gave you the ability to create. God gave you the ability to think. See The Thinking Formula and The Thinking Formula – A Reprise.

If after your best efforts, you aren’t able to come up with a way to structure your business, products, and services in a progression like I’ve described above, then you at least want to structure it in a way where your business repeats itself over and over.

Maybe it’s a membership program. Maybe it’s a new “product every month” kind of program. Maybe it’s a “maintenance” program where you are paid on an ongoing basis by your customers so that they always have the latest and greatest product or service from you or they always have you to care for them when they need you to take care of something for them. Maybe it’s “royalties” or “licensing fees”. There are many different method that I may get into in a later post.

What’s important for you to grasp right now is that you are looking for Residual Revenue – money that keeps on coming to you, on regular and repeated intervals.

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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The Marketing Formula – Part 1

Up to this point I have spent a lot of time writing about developing a Biblically-based mindset of wealth. And, because your mindset is 95% or more of what it takes for you to become a Millionaire For Jesus, I'll undoubtedly write more about this in the future. At the same time, I need to start sharing with you the actual business principles and philosophies that every Millionaire For Jesus uses directly or indirectly.

Just to make sure we are together, the cycle of business generally follows this format:

1. Product/Service Creation Or Acquisition
2. Marketing
3. Sales
4. Product/Service Delivery And Or Implementation
5. Product/Service Support And Customer Care

Of these 5 business elements, Marketing is one of the more important elements and yet it is typically the least understood element.

It's worth noting that companies that are good at marketing are typically the most successful companies and they can grow to whatever level they want to - including joining the Fortune 500 club if they so desire. Microsoft Corporation is an example of a company that is great at Marketing.

Because of the importance of Marketing, I'm going to discuss it first. This way, you can start paying attention to how other companies are Marketing and ultimately decide how you want to market whatever it is that you choose to Market.

So, starting at a high level, here is the ULTRA-SECRET Marketing Formula that so few people know about let alone understand:

1. Create an ever-growing MONEY-SOURCE (customer list) by constantly collecting the contact information of as many customers and prospective customers as you can.
2. Communicate with your MONEY-SOURCE (customer list) in the right way at the right time.
3. Attract customers with Attraction Devices.
4. Gain even more customers by using Joint Ventures.
5. Recruit affiliates to bring you business that you would have had no way of getting on your own.
6. Create reasons for customers to do business with you more and more frequently and at higher and higher dollar volumes.

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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Relative To Your Business Time…

To those of you who would like to become a Millionaire For Jesus, consider how I select the use of my business time…

1. My quality of life is determined by what I give first place to.
2. I don’t let someone who didn't do what they were supposed to do, when they were supposed to do it, drop their “fire” in my lap. Otherwise, my whole day will go up in smoke because of some “arsonist”.
3. When I have long and short-term goals, I know where I want to go and it's easy to determine whether or not the work, tasks, and projects I’m working on will take me there.
4. Leveraging my business time isn’t hard. All I have to do is block out time for myself – close the door, turn off the phone, shut down email, remove all distractions – and focus on the one single thing that my intuition (God speaking to my heart) tells me has the highest revenue-generating potential.
5. It really is as simple as letting my intuition (God speaking to my heart) guide me in what it is that has the highest revenue-generating potential, and then having the discipline and resolve to concentrate and focus single-mindedly on that one thing until it is complete or there is absolutely nothing else I can do towards completing it. Then, I let my intuition (God speaking to my heart) guide me to the next thing that has the highest revenue-generating potential and I repeat the process.
6. If I don’t set aside time for myself each business day, then I do not value myself or my time.
7. If I don’t focus on the one thing that my intuition (God speaking to my heart) tells me has the highest revenue-generating potential, then I do not value myself or my time.
8. The natural tendency for all of us is to “major in minors” and to give in to the temptation to clear up the small things first. After all, small things are easier and they are often more fun than the big, important things that represent the most valuable use of our time. However, “majoring in minors” means that I will have a minor income and minor results in life! But, by focusing single-mindedly on the one thing that has the highest revenue-generating potential, I will have major income and major results in life!
9. In business, there are certain things that I must constantly do:

• Prospecting: Look for new people who need my products and services.
• Networking: Get out of my office and give myself the opportunity to meet new people.
• Contact People: Pick up the phone. Mail the sales letters. Send the emails. Do something to make something happen.
• Talk To People: Ask good questions. Search for problems. Discover new trends, ideas, or opportunities. Learn.
• Make An Offer: Tell people what I have to offer and ask them to buy.
• Product Development: Develop or find new products or services that will make my customers lives better and easier.
• Learn: Learn how to do all of the above better, faster, easier, more creatively

How much business time you spend on your business – whether 1 hour per day, 1 day per week, 3 days a week, or 5 days a week, matters only in the sense of how fast you will achieve what it is that you want to achieve. What’s most important is that you consistently set aside this business time for yourself with no exceptions.

Here are the two really important reasons why I am so careful and strict about how I spend my business time:

1. Family Time: The important people in my life equate how much I love them and care about them to how much quality, uninterrupted, time I spend with them. If I get too busy to spend time with my spouse, children, family, and friends, I will eventually lose them as they go off into their own personal world of other people and other activities. By being very careful with and strict about my business time, I put myself in a position both time-wise and money-wise where I can enjoy my family time to the fullest.
2. God Time: I must make sure that I devote time to God every day. If I don’t keep my relationship with Christ up-to-date, then I will soon lose the connection and the source to everything I want and need. By being very careful with and strict about my business time, I put myself in a position both time-wise and money-wise where I can be of maximum service and value to the Kingdom of God.

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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“The One Way To Make Your Dreams Come True”

What is it that you catch yourself dreaming about from time to time?

What is it that you see yourself doing or accomplishing in your dream?

Who do you see yourself helping?

Geographically, where do you see yourself at in your dream?

What are the feelings that you feel in your dream?

What is it that makes your dream so wonderful?

If only your dream could come true…

I’ve got good news for you! Your dreams can come true.

We can find the way to make dreams a reality in Ecclesiastes 5:3 – “For a dream cometh through the multitude of business”.

The sooner you turn your KEABA (Knowledge, Experience, Ability, Belief, Action) into a business, the sooner your dreams are going to come true. (See the '2005-10-09' archive for more on KEABA)

When you are working for someone else, you are helping them achieve their dreams.

How can you bring your dreams to a reality if you are busy working on someone else's?

When you get your own business going, you can bring your own dreams to fruition.

Note: In reference to the word “multitude”, see http://www.millionairesforjesus.com/Blog/2005/11/srs-formula.html.

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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Where Are They Going?

Let’s imagine for a moment that you and your family decide that you are going to take a little 4-day weekend get-away trip. Further, let’s imagine that you are already a Millionaire For Jesus and so money is not a problem.

What is the first thing that you and your family would start thinking about?

If you are like most people, you would start by asking yourselves “where do we want to go?”

Now, let’s imagine that as you and your family are trying to decide where you want to go, some salesperson barges in and starts trying to sell you a car by telling you all about the wheels, the engine, the interior, the dimensions, the specifications, etc.

Do you care about a car at this point? Of course not! And, you sure don’t care about all of the details of this car.

You don’t care because you are trying to figure out and decide where you are going for your weekend get-away – not how you are going to get there. And in fact, even when you do start thinking about how you are going to get there, the details about the car (or whatever form of transportation you choose to use) really does not matter to you.

The fact is, you are focused on where you are going and the enjoyment you are going to experience when you get there.

Guess what. Those people to whom you want to sell your KEABA are going somewhere. And, they are focused on what it’s going to be like when they get there. They are not focused on the details of the vehicle that is going to take them there.

Now, this fabricated example may seem a bit absurd but it is exactly what so many salespeople do day in and day out. They barge into their marketplace touting all of their details and specifications and they never even think about where it is that their marketplace is really trying to get to. And they wonder why doors get slammed in their face and why they have such a hard time selling.

You want to take a different approach – a much easier approach. When you go to offer your KEABA to your marketplace, start by asking them questions about where they are going and what they are looking for when they get there. Then, you will be able to position your KEABA in terms that relate to them and that are important to them.

Can you see how your sales success will be much higher?

But let’s not forget about the SRS Formula we talked about in the previous post.

Here’s a question for you… Would one weekend get-away be enough to last you for the rest of your life?

If you are like most people, the answer is emphatically NO!

Is it possible that even as our imaginary family was planning their weekend get-away that we could together start sketching some rough plans for the next get-away? Of course it is.

So, all the while you are talking with your marketplace about where they are going, you should also be planting the seeds of them using you to help them get to where they are going after they get to where they are going right now.

On an ongoing basis, your marketplace is going somewhere. Use your KEABA to help them get there – again and again!

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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Here’s the kind of seller you want to be…

Think about all of the “sellers” that you encounter over the course of a week – whether in your place of business, in other people’s businesses, on the radio or TV, or wherever it is that you encounter them.

Are they really trying to help you?

Or, are they trying to convince you and others to buy their next “knick-knack” or “gadget” that has fleeting usefulness and value?

This is not the kind of seller you want to be. Here’s the kind of seller you want to be:

• Romans 12:10 – “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love.” With a heart full of care, sell as if you were selling to your brother. As a Christian, you obviously wouldn’t sell anything to your brother that didn’t have lasting value and usefulness.
• Romans 13:10 – “Love worketh no ill to his neighbour.” Never sell anything from which you would gain but your customer would not.
• 1 Peter 1:22 – “See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.” We are to love God, ourselves, and others. When we do, then we are only interested in true win-win situations – situations where you, your customer and God’s Kingdom are benefited on a long-term basis. When you sell in this kind of a model, your success is sure to come.
• 1 John 3:18 – “Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” You aren’t looking to “slick-talk” customers into doing business with you. You are looking to demonstrate that you care about them and that you are able to offer them something of lasting usefulness and value.
• Mark 10:21 – “Then Jesus beholding him loved him.” In Mark 10, we see the story of Jesus trying to “sell” a rich man on becoming a Millionaire For Jesus instead of a millionaire for himself. As Jesus goes to “close” the sale, He looks upon his “customer” and He “loved him”. When you are selling, make sure that you love your customers and your sincerity will come shining through.
  
  A Millionaire For Jesus is a SELLER who LOVES and HELPS people.

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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Secret Verse #3

If you haven’t read “Secret Verse #1 & #2 yet, scroll down and read them first…

We find the third secret verse to becoming a Millionaire For Jesus in Proverbs 11:26, “Blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth.”

If you are going to become a Millionaire For Jesus, you must become a SELLER.

Being a seller doesn’t mean that you have to become an unethical, greasy, “slick-Willy”, car-salesman type of seller who is out to cheat and beat everyone he or she can.

Being a seller means bringing your KEABA (see previous posts) to the marketplace and helping those people who are interested in your KEABA in positive and beneficial ways. Being a seller means presenting win-win products and services to other people.

If you are uncomfortable with the word “seller”, you might think of yourself as becoming a purveyor. A purveyor is someone who supplies and furnishes people with provisions (products) and services.

Of the 6,500,000,000 people in the world today, there are plenty of people who could benefit and profit from you supplying and furnishing them with your KEABA.

So now you need to be thinking about having your own business and what products and services your business is going to be selling.

There’s more coming…

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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Secret Verse #2

We find the second secret verse to becoming a Millionaire For Jesus in Proverbs 28:19, “He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread.”

The phrase “He that tilleth” lets us know that we have to take action. It tells us that we must create something that has value. It tells us that we should work on something worthwhile. It lets us know that we are to develop something that will produce a “harvest” – something that has a greater result at the end compared to what we put into it at the beginning.

Now, here’s the “secret” word upon which your success hinges… “his”!

Notice that this person isn’t tilling someone else’s land. He’s tilling “his” land.

This person isn’t working in someone else’s business; he’s developing and working his own business.

In Luke 10:7 Jesus tells us, “for the labourer is worthy of his hire”. If you are tilling someone else’s land, if you are working in someone else’s business, you are worthy of your hire and you will have…

“bread” – enough to get you to your next paycheck.

But here’s where things change, when you till your own land, when you work your own business, you will have…

“PLENTY” of bread.

Do you see the difference?

In future posts, I’ll start sharing some ideas about what kind of business you should have and what it should look like.

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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Secret Verse #1

We can find the first secret verse to becoming a Millionaire For Jesus in I Thessalonians 4:10-12, “We beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing”.

First of all, we see yet another indication that it is God’s will for us to have plenty in the phrases, “increase more and more” and “that ye may have lack of nothing”.

Now, here’s the secret – “to do your own business, and to work with your own hands”.

Did you notice whose business this was? That’s right, “YOUR OWN”! If you are to be in a position where you have lack of nothing, then you’ve got to have your own business.

Now, moving to the word “work”, Webster’s dictionary defines work as physical and mental effort.

If you are going to become a Millionaire For Jesus, then you must be putting your physical and mental effort into your own business!

Also, pay special attention to the word “do” used in this verse. There is no “passive” waiting around described in this verse. Instead, we are being directed to “urgent action”. It’s as if the Apostle Paul is telling us:

“Get to work in your own business so that you can increase more and more and so that you don’t have lack of anything so that you can get busy doing a work for the Lord!”

Here’s another interesting phrase in this verse, “That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without”. Here are some thoughts about this phrase:

• If you work for someone else and you are on salary and you come in late, leave early, or have to go take care of some personal business then you are in effect “stealing” from your employer.
• Because many people who work for someone else are just barely getting by, there is a “pull” to “take” from their employer since they “have plenty” and “they’ll never even miss it”.
• What kind of a testimony is it to the world if a Christian is so poor that he or she is always living right on the edge of dishonesty and desperation?

Start putting some thought into having your own business.

We’ll be talking more about you having your own business as we go forward.

Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Lane Fox

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