If you had enough money to make the ends meet, would it be enough to accomplish everything that you wanted?

Have you learned how to effectively manage your money so that you dont keep running into problems?

Many people believe that if they just had enough money to meet their needs, then it would solve their financial problems. However the truth is, that if we havent learned to apply the Principles of Prosperity, then money could very well be the beginning of our problems.

In other words, reality tells me that I make enough money to meet my needs, but if I do, then my wants go lacking. Its hard enough to give in to doing whats necessary and thus sacrificing in order to gain the greater benefit later.

We want, what we want, when we want it.

Let me break this down. First of all, its hard to grasp the concept of giving in order to gain. I mean lets be for real. How am I going to make money by giving away money? Well, now we come to a place in which we can learn wealth creation.

In just a moment Im going to share that secret with you. As a matter of fact, if I may be quite blunt, its really not a secret at all. In actuality, its law. And you know what? The law applies whether we chose to believe it or not.

For example, lets take a stop sign and post it in a new area in which you are accustomed to driving. You know that it hasnt been there. With a policeman right across the street giving tickets, betting people will continue in tradition, rather than paying attention to the change you travel on through it.

Once you run the stop sign, even though it hasnt been there, you dont get a warning but a ticket. Its not fair you scream! But alas, the law is the law, and the law states that we must come to a complete stop at a stop sign. Therefore we spend more money on that which is not beneficial for securing our future finances.

A Few Points

When we spend our finances in this manner, we are choosing to invest in prospering others that have no interest in whether or not we prosper. Its called an investment with no chance of a return.

The point Im trying to make is that we must recognize and apply the law in order to avoid unwanted and unnecessary trouble.

And so failing to apply even though we know, and/or failing to recognize whether we know or not (as a judge will tell you that ignorance of the law is no excuse), has consequences that can turn into consistent bad-habits should we fail to learn. Therefore we tend to repeat and stay in the same circle of going through.

$$$ - A Lesson Learned

Now if I share this truth with you, I dont want you getting mad at me J. Would you prefer the kiss of an enemy, or the truth of a friend even though you know it hurts?

In 1986 I was blessed in having a job in which I made $24.88 an hour. In addition they paid me $65 a day per diem in a separate check. Now the ironic thing is that my blessing wasnt in the amount of money I made (because it was surely enough to make the ends meet), but the lesson I learned from walking away from it with not enough savings.

You see, at that point and time in my life, my mind-set told me that this would always be so. At that time, I believed I was truly wealthy with not financial care in the world. So I chose to spend a majority of the money I made on my wants first. Wants in which not one of them do I have today. The bottom line is, I dont have a penny to show for it!

I was told to put money up for rainy days, yet I failed to apply what I thought I knew. And as I said before, the reason was that I didnt believe rainy days would come. Totally clueless as to what my real needs were.

Today however, my mind-set is totally different. You see, that experience was a lesson learned. Through it, I have been doubly blessed to learn how to apply certain principles that would keep me from experiencing that fate again.

Applying the Principles

Among the top of those principles is give and it shall be given. There is a clause in that principle as well, When wealth is given to you, what are you going to do with it?

By testing God in my tithing, Ive learned another valuable lesson. YOU CANT OUT GIVE GOD! He has given me the tools to manage money effectively and the wisdom to gain wealth.

The money we make is not ours to do with as we please. It is given to us to manage so that no one has to be without. If I remain selfish in my prosperity, and fail to prosper my brother or sister, then how do I know whether or not if I am the cause of not yet having the cure for cancer?

But if I chose to prosper someone else, it is quite possible that that someone else could have the cure ifthey only had the means.

By learning to give what is owed I have experienced the power to gain so much more than just having enough. Its called wealth. Now I chose to give even more so. Not out of my abundance, but because it is the law.

By learning what my real needs are I have learned to invest into that which is lasting, necessary and beneficial to family and myself.

Now if I were to give you the keys to obtaining this wealth so that you would never be without again, would you follow the law? Its all a matter of YOUR faith. Are you comfortable in putting your money where your faith is?