Seek and Think!

I know you probably don’t want to hear it, but we are in for some very tough times.  People are getting laid off and retirement funds are disappearing into thin air.  The Federal Reserve is printing money like there is not tomorrow, and our government is taking over the banking system and private enterprises.  In light of this here are a couple of options each one of us has:

1.     Complain, murmur, take more drugs and drink more alcohol

2.     Seek and think your way through this disaster

Seek and think you ask?  It sounds too simple, but yes, now is the time to seek.  Now is the time for the millionaire within you to truly come forth.  95% or more of the world population have been marching, unaware, toward the mountain of debt we are now facing.  This mountain is huge and unmovable and most will just give up and look to the world governments to bail them out at the foot of this gigantic mountain. 

Most will just pitch a tent at the foot of this mountain and sing the blues.  Little do they know that on the other side of the mountain is a city of gold!  On the other side of defeat is victory!  On the other side of failure is success!  In order to get to the other side you just have to THINK.  You just have to seek a way or ways to go through or over or around the mountain.

My wife and I travel to West Virginia regularly to visit family.  We have to go through Wheeling.  There are two ways to get through Wheeling:  Go through a mountain on I-70 or go up and around the mountain on I-470.  There was a time when neither route existed.  However somebody with a seeking heart and a thinking mind came up with a way to get to the other side opening an easy way to the east.

Right now, you can begin to seek for a way to get through these hard economic times.  Right now you can put on your thinking cap and use your God-given mind to think of a way to make it through, successful, this seemingly impossible time.

Do not look to the government.  In my opinion our politicians are abject failures.  They are creating a socialist welfare state at the expense of achievers.  You must take matters into your own hands with the help of the Almighty God.  God and man, when paired together, make an unbeatable team.  He will give you the wisdom and knowledge that you will need to get through this man-made disaster we are finding ourselves in. 

The Bible says, “Keep on asking, keep on seeking, and keep on knocking.”  It goes on to say that those who keep on asking will receive and those who keep on seeking will find and those who keep on knocking, the door will be opened to them.  I don’t know about you, but I would rather trust the Bible than CNN and MSNBC.  All the media does is spew negative defeatism throughout the earth.  This just puts people in the state of fear, and according to the Bible, fear has torment!

My advice, don’t look at the mountain as something that cannot be overcome, rather look at it as something to be defeated!  To defeat it, seek the One who knows how to defeat it.  That’s just my advice!

Feeling the Squeeze?

Many people are feeling the squeeze financially these days.  It is a terrible feeling, but it is not all bad.

Take an orange for example, there is nothing wrong with it in its “whole” state, but how can you get any benefit of it in that state?  An orange is not to be admired; rather it is to be enjoyed.  To fully enjoy the “purpose” of an orange it needs to be peeled and squeezed.  There is nothing as tasty to drink as fresh squeezed orange juice. 

Our life is much the same.  When we are “whole” our true purpose can never manifest.  It seems that when we human beings get “peeled” and “squeezed” our true purpose comes is manifest as well.

Financial hardships are God’s way of squeezing us to make some course changes.  We may have a great job, but something happens, and all of a sudden we are faced with a pay reduction, wage freezes, or lay-offs.  The proper way to look at those events is to realize that there must be something better for us.  We just needed some pressure to discover what that “something better” is.

I would have never gotten involved with network marketing if I were not squeezed to take some action and develop a plan to become financially independent.  I am tired of being told when to report to work, when to go on vacation, how much I am going to make, when I will be laid-off, fired, etc.  It’s when we reach the point of being “squeezed that great things can begin to happen.  Our true gifts, talents, and desires, come forth from this “squeezing process.”   The “squeeze” helps us to realize that there must be a better way…and there usually is!

Are you feeling the “squeeze?”  If so, don’t panic.  Have an open mind and start doing some real soul searching.  What is it that you really want in life?  What do you want to accomplish?  What do you love?  What do you hate?  What excites you?  What do you do naturally that can benefit others?  The answer to these questions might be the key to your future.  Above all, I suggest prayer to your Creator, for He knows exactly what is the very best for you.

Today, opportunities abound for those who truly seek them.  Jesus said, “Seek and you SHALL find.”  He did not say, “You ‘might’ find.”  There is certainty in the result of seeking, “You SHALL find.”  However, people do not usually seek unless they are pressed to do so; its human nature.  Businesses spring up daily from people who are “squeezed” or pressured financially.

“Squeezing” is a sign from Above that it’s time to change direction.  It’s time to seek for new answers to the developing problems in our lives.  I find that when one door closes, another opens.  However, many of us will stand and curse the closed door, never realizing that another and bigger door is opening right behind them.

What is your situation today?  Are you feeling squeezed or pressured?  If so, don’t lose heart.  Discover the meaning of the situation you are in.  Like I said, opportunities abound today, especially if you have a phone and the Internet.  Find out what other people need and want and then fulfill that need or want.  By doing so you will be rich.  If a problem exists, there has got to be a solution.  I believe if there were no solutions, problems would not exist.  A problem is proof of a solution; it just needs to be found out.  I would bet that YOU have or are the solution for a certain problem.  All you need to do is find out what you are great at.  You must be great at something.  God doesn’t make inferior products!  He placed a gift in you.  He put a solution to others problems in you.  Find out what THAT is and market it, for it is THAT solution (gift or talent) that you ALREADY possess that will make you rich!

Being “squeezed” is a blessing.  May you discover that this is true and remember to SEEK until you FIND.