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		<title>Should Christians Have Life Insurance? Christian Perspective</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bible absolutely supports financial planning, including leaving an emergency fund or inheritance to your dependents. To prove this perspective would be a short work, but I am going to talk more on this&#8212;which life insurance products are best for Christians? Bible verses that support buying life insurance Proverbs 6:6-7 Go to the ant, you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;">The Bible absolutely supports financial planning, including leaving an emergency fund or inheritance to your dependents. To prove this perspective would be a short work, but I am going to talk more on this&#8212;which life insurance products are best for Christians?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Bible verses that support buying life insurance</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;"><strong>Proverbs 6:6-7</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Go to the ant, you sluggard;</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> consider its ways and be wise!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It has no commander,</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> no overseer or ruler,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">yet it stores its provisions in summer</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> and gathers its food at harvest.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Proverbs 13:22</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children,</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">1 Timothy 5:8</span></strong></span><a href="http://bible.cc/1_timothy/5-9.htm"> </a></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his  immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an  unbeliever.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">And what is the best life insurance product for Christians?</span></p>
<h4><span style="color: #000000;">Life Insurance for Chrisians</span></h4>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">You may think I am being too narrow after hearing this, but I am going to tell you that term life insurance is the only product you should buy.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The common illusion that the insurance industry has created and maintained with tremendous effort is that&#8212;&#8221;life insurance is an investment product&#8221; (Fact: it&#8217;s primarily an expense, but as an investment it is bad). Rich people might sell life insurance, or own stocks of life insurance companies, but they will not use it for their retirement and saving plan.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">You can never achieve financial independence by &#8220;investing&#8221; in a cash value life insurance (i.e. Universal life, Variable life, Universal Variable life, and other fancy products). The fee is too high for any real earning in the long run. The &#8220;growth&#8221; is most likely due to inflation. The &#8220;projected figure&#8221; that the insurance agent is going to show you will never come true. I had been an insurance agent before and I had never seen it came true. Rather, I had only seen people suffered because of the expensive life insurance products they bought.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Most people are overpaying for their life insurance, yet are underinsured. They will bear this burden for the rest of their life too, since the insurance industry has done a great job brainwashing people into believing that life insurance is for life.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The usual arguement is that &#8220;You will get nothing back with term insurance&#8221;, but the best type of life insurance is term life, because, whether we like it or not, life insurance is an expense, and we can only minimize the expense by sticking to the basic the we truly need, getting rid of it as soon as we don&#8217;t need it, and avoiding fancy features that are expensive.<br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">They have many gimicks to get people to buy too, such as saying their products will no longer require you to pay premiums in 20 years (after 20 years they will say the projected interest earning was over stated and now you need to pay), and other numerous add-on that play number games with the money you put in, and claim to give you tax advantages.<br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">The truth is they make sure the money you earn from whatever investment within the policy will never exceed a certain amount, so that the government won&#8217;t tax you for it. It is not wise to combine investment with life insurance in the first place, because the management fee for your investment is very high. Always! If your earning goes to management fee, then there would be no tax. No earning, no tax!<br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">Also, all death proceeding from life insurance is tax-free, because you pay for your life insurance with after-tax money. The government isn&#8217;t going to tax you twice. This means that the proceed from term life insurance is also tax free, just like the cash value life insurance in general is tax free, should the insured person passes away.<br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">With term life insurance, you will get a sufficient coverage on the life of the bread winner, which will give you an adequate financial compensation that will maintain the current living standard of the family for years, if the bread winner dies. The cost of term life insurance is much cheaper, and it only lasts as long as the working life of the breadwinner. Once the insured person is retired, there is no more financial need to cover his or her life. It is an expense afterall, and you don&#8217;t want an expense to last forever. What you need for retirement is money.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">From this point on, should you need anymore explanation, we will have to get into the elaborate details. Click here for </span><a href="http://saikit.hubpages.com/hub/Life-Insurance-With-Cash-Value"><span style="color: #0000ff;">more detailed rebuttals </span></a><span style="color: #000000;">against the typical sale pitches of life insurance agent. Remember, most of the time it is not too late to switch to a cheaper term life insurance, even if you have already bought a cash value life insurance of any form, but make sure you get the new policy approved first before you cancel the old ones. Your life insurance agent will most likely fearmonger you into staying with the current company, but those are usually lies. Customers usually saved money by taking the cash value out and surrender their old policies, after they get the new term life insurance in place.<br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">If you trust me on this, you will simply forget the complexity, and just go online and shop for a term life insurance product in your area. You can buy up to 30 years of coverage or more, with a couple of good terms such as grace period, and waiver of premiums during unemployment, and that is it. You don&#8217;t even need a life insurance agent to help you, which makes it even cheaper when you bypass the middle person, who will add commission fee to your insurance cost.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Next, you are going to use the money you saved by buying the much cheaper term life insurance, instead of the typical products they want to sell you, to invest in your own business, or other investments that God led you to.</span></p>
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		<title>Biblical Definition Of Prosperity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can start enjoying biblical prosperity now if you&#8217;re a child of God. The blessing of prosperity is subjected to some conditions of course. God doesn&#8217;t spoil His children, but you can really start enjoying success and abundance quickly if you understand God&#8217;s conditions and submit to them. What is the biblical definition of prosperity? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;">You  can start enjoying biblical prosperity now if you&#8217;re a child    of God.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The blessing of prosperity is subjected to some   conditions of   course. God doesn&#8217;t spoil His children, but you can   really start   enjoying success and abundance quickly if you understand God&#8217;s conditions and submit to them.<br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">What   is  the biblical definition of prosperity? It is important to  first  understand  what  biblical prosperity is about, so you can tell  when you  don&#8217;t have  it and  fix the problem, or give thanks when you  realize you  have received  favors  from God.</span></p>
<h3><span style="color: #000000;">Prosperity glorifies  God</span></h3>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">We are  created  for God&#8217;s glory (Isaiah 43:7). But after  sin entered  the  picture, we  all have sinned and fallen short of the  glory of God  (Romans  3:23).</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Jesus  came and died for our sin,  so that when we became  born again  by putting  our faith in Jesus  Christ we could obtain  salvation. Salvation  comes in  manifold, and it  includes restoration of  our ability to  glorify God:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">What is the  glory of God? His  creativity, beauty, perfection,   wisdom, power,  knowledge, and every  virtue that He displays by being   Himself. He  also displays His glory  through His creation, and of all   creations,  human kind was the most special  and precious because we were made   in His  image (Genesis 1:27).</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The  package of restoration includes   power, authority, abundance, and  all  kind of blessings that Jesus  Christ  has (Ephesians 1:3).</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">We are  to go out and show people  how  blessed we are, not walking  around poor  and defeated while  praising God  for being poor and  defeated.</span></p>
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<p id="passage_heading"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Matthew  5:16</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-23251">16</sup>Let your light so  shine before men,  that   they may see your good works, and glorify your  Father which is in    heaven.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Now, doing good works  isn&#8217;t as easy as it   sounds. According to the  standard of the Bible, good  work isn&#8217;t just   any work that seems good to  men. Everything that <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2015:23,%20Romans%2014:23,%20Proverbs%2016:25,%20Isaiah%2064:6,%20Matthew%207:21&amp;version=KJV">isn&#8217;t     from God is sin</a>. That means you and I have to discern God&#8217;s will     and find out what He wants us to do in every specific situation and do   it   in the right timing with the right motives.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Sounds   impossible,  doesn&#8217;t it?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, <strong>glorifying God is a   supernatural  process that  requires supernatural power to achieve. </strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>John  15:7-8</strong><br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-26707">7</sup>If ye abide in  me, and my words abide  in you,   ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall  be done unto you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-26708">8</sup><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Herein is my  Father glorified</span>,  that  ye  bear much fruit; so shall ye be my  disciples.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">To   glorify God, we need to be in a very  intimate relationship with   Jesus.  We need to make sure that every prayer  that we pray will be   answered.  If we are in this state, then we will  have no problem  bearing  much  fruits and glorify God by bearing much fruit.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">You may  ask, how can you  make sure your prayers will be answered?   Isn&#8217;t that  presumptuous?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Everything  that God promised in the  Bible and  everything that the  Holy Spirit impressed upon/or revealed to you through His word  were  yours to have (2 Cor  1:20). And you  can be certain that you can  have  what you ask if you and  Jesus are  close and like-minded.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Since   Jesus has ascended to heaven about  2000 years ago, many false   teachings and  human philosophies have crept  in to the Christian  community and try to nullify God&#8217;s word  (1 Cor 2:1-5; 2  Tim 3:5). This is  unfortunate, because  many Christians  have been kept  away from the  supernatural power, which  come only with the  pure truth, by  <a href="http://bible-verses-insights.com/2010/03/deception-in-the-evangelical-church/">these     false teachings and human philosophies</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Right teaching   will enable the hearers to bear good fruits, but wrong teaching will cause the hearers to bear wrong fruits.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">Relevant Read:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">My   journal entry: <a href="http://journal.exodus-from-9to5.com/2010/01/give-glory-to-god/">Glory     of God</a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">How to live supernaturally: <a href="http://bible-verses-insights.com/2009/11/parable-of-the-mustard-seed/">Parable     of the Mustard Seed</a></span></p>
<h3><span style="color: #000000;">Prosperity is a    blessed state of having the resource and ability to  accomplish God&#8217;s    will</span></h3>
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<p id="passage_heading"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">2 Corinthians 9:8 </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-28965">8</sup>And God is  able to make all grace     abound toward you; that ye, always having all  sufficiency in all     things, may abound to every good work:</span></p>
<p id="passage_heading"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Philippians   4:12-13,19</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-29455">12</sup>I know both   how to be  abased, and I   know how to abound: every where and in all   things I am  instructed both   to be full and to be hungry, both to   abound and to  suffer need.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-29456">13</sup>I can   do all  things through Christ  which  strengtheneth me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-29462">19</sup>But my God shall  supply  all your  need   according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">True    prosperity is not hoarding. Hoarding is in fact a sign of  poverty.    Those who hoard will also hoard critters and dirt, because  critters  and   dirt always gather around large pile of useless items.  Hoarders  will   have to maintain their increasing pile with stress and  extra  expenses.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Same  goes with money in the bank account. Jesus says  moth and rust   will  destroy it, and thieves will try to steal it.  (John 6:19)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">However,  that  doesn&#8217;t  mean if we are wealthy we should  just sit back and allow the   thieves to  steal our wealth. I will try  to write more posts about how   to keep<a href="http://journal.exodus-from-9to5.com/2009/12/how-to-deal-with-the-thief-satan-and-his-demons/"> our foe Satan away and make him pay back what he had stolen from us</a>,     because he is the one who steal, kill, and destroy. (John 10:10)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">A   better way to handle wealth is to give it to those who are   expanding   the kingdom of God. Paper money that sits in a bank does   nothing but   gets eroded by inflation. Keeping paper money in the bank   is worst than   burying gold underground, because gold is immune to   inflation.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">True prosperity is a blessed state  of always having  something to  give to those who are  in need. Again,  it is a  supernatural process.  Give, and you will be  given more. (Luke  6:38)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Many people think that Jesus was a poor guy when he was  walking on  earth, but  no, he was never poor  except when he was nailed  on the  cross naked. He  always had enough  resource to do what he had  to do.  Sometime he would  just perform a  miracle and create whatever  he needed  when his treasury wasn&#8217;t around (Who was Judas, the one  who  betrayed   Jesus)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Judas stole from the ministry fund regularly.  If Jesus got  a treasury to take care of his wallet, it had to have a  lot of money in  it. And if someone managed to steal from it, the pile  must be big  enough so that when some money is gone no one would notice.</span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #000000;">Prosperity  of God is a foolish and narrow  way</span></h3>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">1   Corinthians 1:26-30</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-28387">23</sup>But  we  preach Christ  crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto  the  Greeks  foolishness;<sup id="en-KJV-28388">24</sup>But  unto them  which  are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of  God, and  the  wisdom of God.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-28389">25</sup>Because the   foolishness of God is wiser than  men; and the weakness of God is   stronger than men.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-28390">26</sup>For ye see your    calling, brethren,   how that not many wise men after the flesh, not   many  mighty, not many   noble, are called:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-28391">27</sup>But God hath  chosen the foolish  things of   the  world to confound the wise; and God  hath chosen the weak  things   of the  world to confound the things which  are mighty;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-28392">28</sup>And base things of the  world,  and  things   which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things  which  are  not,   to bring to nought things that are:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-28393">29</sup>That   no flesh should glory in  his  presence.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-28394">30</sup>But    of him are ye in Christ Jesus,  who of  God is made unto us wisdom,   and  righteousness, and  sanctification, and  redemption:</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">God isn&#8217;t impressed by self-sufficiency. Therefore in the Bible God   often pit the weak against the strong to show to the world that He  alone  is the source of all things good.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Humans are capable of  succeeding on their  own without God. God gave good talents and natural  strength to men when  He created us, so even though sin entered the  world and corrupted us  all, we can still go on our own way and achieve  something without God.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Herein lies the gravest problem in our  history – our departing and  independence from God was the first sin we  committed. To this day, the  stubborn desire to stay independence is  what has kept many from God.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">We have to be humble enough to  receive true prosperity from God. If  we think we are strong, then we  have no room for God&#8217;s power. If we  think we are rich, then we are not  able to receive true wealth from God.  Jesus said it is hard for those  who trust in the riches to enter into  the kingdom of heaven. (Mark 10:  24)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Therefore, God, in His mercy  and wisdom, often choose the  foolish, the weak, and the poor to serve  Him, so He can demonstrate His  power through them and motivate the wise,  the strong, and the rich to  humble themselves before Him.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">To the  foolish, the weak, and the  poor, they have no other things to cling  onto, so it&#8217;s easier for them  to be empty enough for God to fill. That  doesn&#8217;t mean the well off  people cannot receive God, but it&#8217;s just  harder for them if they  think they have everything.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">I have seen  the opposite in rare  instance. Sometime well-off people may humble  themselves before God and  realize they need Him, while the foolish,  weak, and poor ones are  conceited for no reasons.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">No matter where  you are in life, you  can start emptying yourself and ask God to bless  you with prosperity.  You can be a rich man, but still God can give you  better things if you  humble yourself before Him and ask.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The way  of God looks foolish  to the world, and it&#8217;s very narrow. When Jesus got  crucified, who  could have guessed it was actually a victory for God?  Every believer at the time  thought the evil had triumphed, until Jesus was resurrected  and explained  to them about the cross.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The way of the cross is a  narrow path.  Many people expected Jesus to become a military conqueror  and delivered  then from the tyranny of the Roman Empire, but he went to  the cross  instead.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Likewise, if we want true prosperity from God,  we have  to take up our cross and follow Jesus. (Matthew 16:24)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Relevant   Read:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://bible-verses-insights.com/2009/08/practicing-the-presence-of-god/">Practicing   the Presence Of God</a></span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #000000;">Worldly prosperity   may serve you in  this life, but it ultimately  leads you to Hell in the   afterlife</span></h3>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Psalm 49:16-20</span></strong></span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-NIV-14665">16</sup> Do not be  overawed    when  a man grows rich,<br />
when the splendor of his house   increases;</span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-NIV-14666">17</sup> for  he will take   nothing  with him when he dies,<br />
his splendor will   not descend with   him.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-NIV-14667">18</sup> Though  while he lived he   counted  himself blessed—<br />
and men  praise you when  you prosper-</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-NIV-14668">19</sup> he will join the  generation of his    fathers,<br />
who will never see the light of life .</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-NIV-14669">20</sup> A man who has riches without  understanding<br />
is like the beasts that perish.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Many rich and   successful people hold seminars and write books on how to be as rich and   successful as them. People celebrate and praise them for their wealth   and fame and are willing to spend a lot of time and money to be their   students.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">So did I. I thought they must have something good  to  learn from if they can become so successful in the world. After   spending months wandering in the world of self-help/success/money gurus and expert, I realized I was so   distracted by their teachings that I couldn&#8217;t focus on what God is   trying to tell me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Gradually, I also realized that the prosperity   of the world and prosperity of God were entirely different and they   could not be mixed together. (Matthew 9:16-17)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Why does prosperity  of the world lead to Hell? Is there something  wrong with it? Something  immoral?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The main issue is that these  people have been relying  on their own strength. Self-sufficiency might  give you a short-lived  success in this world, but it won&#8217;t last. Isaiah  40:8 says, &#8220;The grass  withereth, the  flower fadeth: but the word of our  God shall stand for  ever.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">But if you build your career based on  daily provision  from God, not only will you experience wild success  beyond imagination,  but what you accomplish will last forever.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Those  who spend  every workday doing their own things will not be able to  discern God&#8217;s  will and obey Him properly. Even though they may be active  church  goers, if they spend at least 5 days per week doing their own  things,  they are just religious rebels.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">If we spend 5 days per  week  doing things we think are right, but are distracted from God&#8217;s  voice,  there are huge chances that we will fall into temptation and hidden  sins.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Prosperity in itself is a good thing, but are you  trying to build  your own prosperity and use it the way you deem right?  Or are you  looking upon God for daily provision and give your wealth to  whoever God directs you to give it to?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Relevant Read:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://bible-verses-insights.com/2009/10/can-you-lose-your-salvation-unforgivable-sin/">Can   You Lose Your Salvation?</a></span></p>
<h3><span style="color: #000000;">Prosperity from   the spiritual  world: Law of  Attraction, the Secret,  Visualization,  Meditation, and  other mysterious  practice</span></h3>
<blockquote>
<p id="passage_heading"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Matthew  4:8-10 </strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-NASB-23218">8</sup>Again, the devil  took Him to a  very   high  mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of  the world and  their    glory;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-NASB-23219">9</sup>and   he said to Him, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">&#8220;All   these  things I will give  You, if You fall  down and worship me.&#8221;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-NASB-23220">10</sup>Then  Jesus said to him, &#8220;Go, Satan!   For it  is  written, &#8216;YOU SHALL WORSHIP  THE LORD  YOUR GOD, AND SERVE   HIM  ONLY.&#8217;&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">This is  exactly what I am talking  about in the previous section. To try to get  prosperity without God will  ultimately and quickly leads to sin, and then ultimately  Hell, if one dies in sin  before <a href="http://bible-verses-insights.com/2010/05/what-is-repentance/">repentance</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Mysterious practices  that claim to make  people successful and rich, or give them anything  they desire by  telling them to &#8220;think it into existence&#8221;, <a href="http://www.letusreason.org/NAM22.htm">are actually witchcraft</a>.   At first, their teachings would seem to make a lot of sense, but it   gradually bring you through the continuum from soft-core, subtle   philosophies to all out demonic doctrines.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">They will tell you   that the mysterious power that gives you what you   visualize/pray/meditate/manifest is the mysterious power source of the Universe, a   supreme being, ascended master, spiritual guide, or some other   identities or deities in various form or titles.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">But in fact they all came from   the same spiritual kingdom – Satan&#8217;s kingdom. If you open yourself just slightly to these spiritual beings,   they will enter you and influence you, and ultimately deceive you from   the true biblical God. (2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 6:12)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Witchcraft   works, but for what ultimate purpose? It works to awe people in this   lifetime. But it cannot save their souls from the eternal God. And it   crumbles immediately when is confronted by the power of God. (Exodus 7:  8-12)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The  only reason Satan gives his followers the power and  knowledge of  witchcraft is to deceive them and to hinder spiritual  growth and well  being of Christians. (Matthew 24:24, 1 Timothy 4:1)</span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #000000;">Prosperity  gives you something out of  nothing</span></h3>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The Bible  has recorded numerous instances where God created something out of  nothing for His people. Perhaps you are familiar with the miracles that  happened during the Exodus. Moses hit a rock and there came the water.  The Manna were dropped from heaven and fed the Israelite everyday for 40  year.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">And there were more:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">A prophet received meat from  crows and he drank from a dwindling river during a prolonged famine, and  then after the river dried up, God sustained a widow supernaturally and  provided that prophet daily meals through her. (1 Kings 17)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Isaac got a very pretty wife through supernatural means, but he  didn&#8217;t even know that until his future wife met him, and then they went  into his tent immediately! (Exodus 24)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">One year,  Isaac planted crops and reaped a hundredfold because of God&#8217;s blessing.  The rest of the nation only got average harvest. Soon Isaac became super  wealthy and the entire nation envied him. (Genesis 26:12-14)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Abraham, the father of faith (which means he is the father of  all Christians), was supernaturally rich and prosperous. (Genesis  13:5-6; 21:22-23; Genesis 24:34-35)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Jobs, a super  rich godly man who went through severe trials from Satan, became double  rich and blessed after he survived the Satanic attacks. (Jobs 42: 10-17)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Jesus fed 5000 men with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes,  including their wives and children. (Matthew 14:13-21)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">A  concubine and her son who got kicked out by their family wandered in a  desert and ran out of water. The woman wept and the child cried, and God  listened to the child, so He enlightened the eyes of the woman and she  saw a well. Moreover, God blessed that kid and promised him to be the  father of a great nation, which is today&#8217;s northern Arab people.  (Genesis 21:8-20)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Jesus took his time to preach like  usual while his disciple Peter accompanied him. Peter was still a  fisherman. He didn&#8217;t give up his job to serve Jesus full time. After  Jesus finished preaching, he told Peter where he should let his net  down, which Peter did halfheartedly because he and his fellow fishermen  had already worked all night in the previous night and found nothing.  This time, he caught so many fishes that the net almost broke, and then  Peter and his pals gave up everything and followed Jesus full time.  (Luke 5:1-11)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<h4><span style="color: #000000;">And many more instances than I  can cover in this post</span></h4>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">In Christ, we have the  blessing of Abraham (Galatians 3:14), which means we can enjoy any  supernatural provision that is similar to the ones on the list above.  The blessing of Abraham takes active faith to manifest. If you are not  aware of that blessing, and if you don&#8217;t have enough faith, prosperity  of God would still elude you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Relevant Read:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">What is  faith?: <a href="http://bible-verses-insights.com/2009/11/parable-of-the-mustard-seed/">The  Parable Of The Mustard Seed</a></span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #000000;">Prosperity   enables you to tackle mission  impossible</span></h3>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">God often calls us to  do something that we are under-qualified to do and enable us to do it,  so that He can reveal His glory through us.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">He doesn&#8217;t want us to  climb through the ladder through human means, but instead He wants us  to leapfrog to the top with spiritual power if we rely on Him fully.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Not only will God gives us His supernatural strength, power, and  revelation to handle the big moments for the short-term, but He may also   give us permanent skill, ability, and knowledge to take on some  professional vacations such as mason, politician, warrior, judge, king,  teacher, prophet, apostle, fisherman, orator, artist, priest,  administrator, and more:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">God gave Abraham the task of  impregnating his wife, Sarah. When Abraham finally accomplished that  task, he was 100 years old, and Sarah was 90. (Genesis 21:5; Genesis  17:17-21) Later, Abraham went on to produce even more children. (Genesis  25:1-4) He went from an infertile husband to fruitful father!</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Jacob fled from his older brother and his wealthy family, and  went to work for his uncle as an employee. This uncle cheated him all  the time, but still, after 20 years of service under his uncle as a super  shepherd (Genesis 30: 27-30), Jacob managed to become very rich at the end.  (Genesis 30:43)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Joseph, one of Jacob&#8217;s sons, got  sold to Egypt as slave and became the chief servant of the captain of  Pharaoh and he was a very successful servant. (Genesis 39:2-6) Later, he  got framed and was sent to prison, but he became the warden&#8217;s assistant  and was also very successful at his job. (Gensis 39: 20-23) Then he  became the Pharaoh&#8217;s second in command&#8230; (see the last section).</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">God often talked to Moses, but the people were scared of God,  so they demanded Moses to be their middle person instead of facing God  themselves. (Exodus 20:19) Later, however, God anointed 70 elders of  Israel with His Spirit and they were able to share some of Moses&#8217;  workload. (Numbers 11:16-17)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">God ordered the  Israelites to build the Tabernacle in a desert. It was a giant piece of  delicate and expensive work of art. But the Israelites were slaves, they  had no skills of that sort. For generations, they had done nothing but  laboring in brick and mortar and all kind of outdoor hard labor work for  Egypt. (Exodus 1:11-14) So God chose a chief craftsmen from among them  and filled him with His Spirit, with skill, ability, and knowledge of  all kinds of crafts and artistic designs. God also dispensed skill to  other general craftsmen to do what God wanted them to do. (Exodus  31:1-11; Exodus 35: 30-35; Exodus 36:1)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">God chose a  child to be the future king of Israel. God sent His prophet to anoint  that child, David, and from the day on, the Spirit of God came upon  child David in power. (1 Samuel 16:13) Later, it was revealed that David  became a prolific composer of worship songs, and his music could resist  demonic forces. (1 Samuel 16:23) Not only that, the Spirit filled  teenager David was able to kill lion and bear with his bare hands. Bare  hands! (1 Samuel 17:34-37) And that was only child play to teenage  David, because he later faced a giant who put the entire nation of  Israel under fear, and killed him in seconds. (1 Samuel 7:45-51)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Daniel had the Spirit of God inside him, so even though he was  captured by Babylonian and was made to be a servant for the foreign  king, he soon became the prime minister in that foreign kingdom. Four  times the dynasty had changed, but Daniel remained a powerful official  in each empire. No one was able to find any fault in him. (Daniel  4:8-9,18; Daniel 5:11-12,14; Daniel 6:3-5) You know how hard it is for a  politician to be too perfect for his enemies to find fault with. In  politics, there are just too many factors and crises that are out of  human control. It&#8217;s impossible to be a perfect politician. The only  politicians people thought perfect always turned out to be mass killing  dictators.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Of course there were many more characters who  got anointed by God and had done amazing things, not once or twice, but  for the rest of their life since the anointing of God&#8217;s Spirit came upon  them. But some might argue that it only happened in the Old Testament  era, so let see what God did to characters in the New Testament era:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Even Jesus himself received the Holy Spirit before he started  his ministry on earth. (Luke 3:21) He later became filled with the power  of the Holy Spirit at the start of His ministry, and everyone  recognized that power and praise him. (Luke 4:14-15)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">After  Jesus died on the cross, the disciples sort of gave up and forgot  everything he said. (Luke 24:13-32) They were dumb. Jesus then appeared  to them and said to them, &#8220;And, behold, I send the promise of my Father  upon you: but tarry ye in  the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued  with power from on high. [the Holy Spirit]&#8221; (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8) So  after Jesus&#8217; ascension they did tarry in Jerusalem and received the Holy  Spirit, and behold, these disciples were no longer dumb after they  received the Spirit. They quoted the Bible right, preached the full  Gospel, healed the sick, and brought many to God. (Acts 1:12-14; Acts  2-5)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Followed by powerful ministry of the apostles,  the church had massive influx of new believers, and even the  Spirit-filled apostles were having trouble taking care of the  administrative work, so they selected 7 Spirit-filled men to take care  of the admin work, and as a result the church grew even more rapidly.  (Acts 6:1-7)</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">To achieve the impossible, you need  supernatural power. Base on the above, we can conclude that permanent  excellence come only with the indwelling of His Spirit. That means  biblical prosperity can only be obtained by a Spirit filled person.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Relevant  Read:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://bible-verses-insights.com/2009/09/spirit-filled-life-bible/">How  To Live A Spirit Filled Life</a></span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #000000;">The blessing  of  prosperity protects you from harm and detour</span></h3>
<blockquote>
<p id="passage_heading"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Job 1:9-10 </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-12879">9</sup>Then Satan  answered the LORD, and said, Doth  Job fear God for nought?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-12880">10</sup>Hast not  thou made an hedge  about him, and about his house, and about all that  he hath on every  side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his  substance is  increased in the land.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Satan is  always outside trying to get in to steal, kill, and destroy, but God  puts a hedge around us if we are in a good relationship with Him.  Without the hedge, we are at the mercy of Satan, but he has no mercy. He  will bring sickness, accident, conflict, and misfortune into our life  anytime he wants if there is no hedge protecting us.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Some people  enjoy more blessings than the others simply because they have a hedge  around them. (Psalm 84:11) Even non-Christian has it. (Matt 5:45) Some  Christians, however, might have broken hedges because of their sins,  their leaders&#8217; sins, or their family&#8217;s sins.</span></p>
<blockquote>
<p id="passage_heading"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Deuteronomy 28:6-7 </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-5618">6</sup>Blessed shalt  thou be when thou comest in, and  blessed shalt thou be when thou goest  out.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-5619">7</sup>The  LORD  shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten  before  thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee  before  thee seven ways.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Some people are  accident-prone. It could be a supernatural phenomenon. If you are  accident-prone, find out what is against you. If that is a result of  curses, you can break the curse in the name of Jesus Christ, and plead  the blood of Christ over yourself and your entire family, and <a href="http://www.bible-knowledge.com/prayer-generational-curse.html">even  the entire ancestry line</a>.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Malachi 3:11</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-23132">11</sup>And I will rebuke the  devourer for  your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your  ground; neither  shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the  field, saith the  LORD of hosts.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">To the contrary what most people  believe, excellence or mediocrity is not something we can totally  control by hard-work and positive thinking.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">There are many  self-help books that teach how to control one&#8217;s financial well-being and  achieve success in life. They try to analyze the way to success and  distill it into a bunch of formulas and principles which everyone can  apply and generate the similar results, but it&#8217;s not biblical this way.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It is not biblical, because they either leave the spiritual force  out of the equation, or they incorporate spiritual force that are not  from God.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">In the spiritual realm, it&#8217;s either God or Satan. There  is no neutral ground. It&#8217;s naive to think that one can make it in life  without either one of the forces at work from behind the scene. You are  either with God, or with Satan. (Matt 4:8; Matt 12:30; Ephesians 2:1-2)</span></p>
<h3><span style="color: #000000;">Prosperity  is promotion, wealth, and health</span></h3>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Psalm  75: 6-7</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-15078">6</sup>For promotion  cometh  neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-15079">7</sup>But God is the judge: he  putteth down one,  and setteth up another.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Believe it or not, even evil leaders are promoted by God. If the people are godless and prayer-less, God can only give them leaders of their own kind. So if you find yourself or someone grumble and murmur against bosses and employers, look into yourself and see if you have done your duty to pray for a godly government. (1 Tim 2:1-4)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It&#8217;s an epic, thousands-years-long war between two kingdoms— kingdom of God and kingdom of Satan.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Again, this is a war that has no neutral ground— either you are with God, or you are under the manipulation and at the mercy of Satan. (Matt 4:8; Matt 12:30; Ephesians 2:1-2; 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 6:12)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Therefore, we have a duty to gain promotion. There more godly people receive promotion in every field, the more the kingdom of God can expand. We are coworkers of God. (Mark 16:20)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Example of biblical promotions:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">When a prisoner, Joseph interpreted a prophetic dream for Pharaoh and Pharaoh made him a prime minister on the spot. (Genesis 41)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">God made Moses His prophet and chose him to lead Israel out of Egypt, although Moses was already 80 years old and slow. (Exodus 4:10-12)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">God blessed a pagan widow, Ruth, and she married a rich Israel man and became one of the ancestor for Jesus Christ. ( Ruth 4:13-22)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Read the book of Judges and you will find many similar promotions. People from all kind of background became deliverer of Israel in different generation. (Book of Judges)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">God chose child David, and anointed him with His Spirit, and I just told you his heroic achievement when a teenager. Later, he became king at the age of 30, after the wicked king Saul, who had persecuted David many times, died. (2 Samuel 5:4)</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Too many examples from the Old Testament to write them all in this post.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">In the New Testament, non-religious, uneducated Jews like Peter and John became the Apostles after they received the Holy Spirit (Acts 2) and they helped build the powerful early Church. They performed miracles that Jesus performed and won every debate with the religious people of the time. (Acts 4:13-14)</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Important:</strong> Although the New Testament only mentioned the promotions of Church leaders, it&#8217;s important to know that the promotions of Old Testament are still relevant today. See the last section of this post.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Deuteronomy 28:11-13</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-NIV-5623">11</sup> The LORD will <span style="text-decoration: underline;">grant  you abundant  prosperity</span>—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your  livestock and  the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your  forefathers to  give you.  <sup id="en-NIV-5624">12</sup> The LORD will open the  heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send  rain on your land in  season and to bless all the work of your hands. You  will lend to many  nations but will borrow from none. <sup id="en-NIV-5625">13</sup> The  LORD will make you the  head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the  commands of the LORD  your God that I give you this day and carefully  follow them, you will  always be at the top, never at the bottom.</span></p></blockquote>
<p id="passage_heading"><span style="color: #000000;">Just want to show you that Biblical prosperity means literal wealth, success, and honor. Too many people try to explain away the basic meaning of prosperity in the Bible or argue that it&#8217;s an Old Testament thing.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Satan wants us to be poor and his kingdom to be rich, so that people will not see the glory of God when they look at us walking around poor and defeated, and that his servants can have plenty of money to promote and create more evil.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">If we obey and follow God, all kinds of prosperity that are promised in the ENTIRE Bible will be ours.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Proverbs 10:22 </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-16679">22</sup>The blessing  of the LORD, it<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> maketh rich</span>, and  he addeth no sorrow with it.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Contrary to what religious people are saying, money doesn&#8217;t bring sorrow. But the love of money does. (1 Timothy 6:10)</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Deuteronomy 7:15<br />
</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-5127">15</sup>And the LORD will take  away from thee all  sickness</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">God means &#8220;all&#8221;. There is no exception. God takes away ALL sickness.</span></p>
<blockquote>
<p id="passage_heading"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Proverbs 3:7-8<br />
</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-16463">7</sup>Be not wise  in thine own eyes: fear  the LORD, and depart from evil.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-16464">8</sup>It  shall be health to thy  navel, and marrow to thy bones.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">So, be healthy.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Now that we know God says we are supposed to be healthy and prosperous, so how are we going to act on this information?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">See <a href="http://bible-verses-insights.com/2009/12/quotes-about-faith/">Quotes About Faith to see how godly men and women receive their healing and deliverance through faith in God&#8217;s words.</a></span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #000000;">You  can have biblical prosperity now</span></h3>
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<p id="passage_heading"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ephesians 1:3 </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-29210">3</sup>Blessed be  the God and Father of our Lord  Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> all spiritual blessings</span> in  heavenly places in Christ:</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">All blessings. Every blessing you can name in the ENTIRE Bible is ours in Christ. The blessings that were written in the Old Testament and the New Testament are both relevant for us today .</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Galatians 3:14</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><sup id="en-KJV-29117">14</sup>That the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">blessing of  Abraham</span> might come on  the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might  receive the promise of  the Spirit through faith.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">We have the blessing of Abraham. In every examples that I listed in this post, the protagonists were descendants of Abraham. We are now the spiritual descendants of Abraham through Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:6-9), so we are entitled to every blessing that Abraham and His children have.</span></p>
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		<title>Review of a Great Christian Finance and Debt Help Website (U.S)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I would like to recommend a Christian personal finance website to my readers in the U.S! There are universal finance principles from the Bible that are good for all, but different demographic is subject to different tax code and law, so I can&#8217;t provide the details and specific advice based on unique situation in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I would like to recommend a Christian personal finance website to my readers in the U.S!</p>
<p>There are universal finance principles from the Bible that are good for all, but different demographic is subject to different tax code and law, so I can&#8217;t provide the details and specific advice based on unique situation in different country.</p>
<p>A lot of my readers come from the U.S, and the U.S is one of the most strategic place for Christians, because it still has religious freedom and a great Christian presence. I want to contribute to my brothers and sisters there in some ways.</p>
<p>Based on the actions of the politicians and the FEDS in U.S, I don&#8217;t see how the economy of U.S is going to prosper for at least the next 10 years. They continue to fuel debts. You can&#8217;t create true prosperity with debts.</p>
<p>For years they have delayed the consequences of false prosperity, but you cannot violate financial principles and expect no consequences.</p>
<p>As it stands, the U.S dollar is likely to fall very rapidly soon and is already falling, and the inflation will skyrocket. Why? because the U.S government has been printing money bills like mad.</p>
<p>If our U.S brothers and sisters enjoy abundance, the rest of the body of Christ will benefit from it. I hope the U.S will remain a great nation that continue to be a training ground of missionaries and a free place for many of the Christian ministries to thrive.</p>
<h4>Christianpf.com</h4>
<p>The U.S is going through a major hardship that might turn into a long depression. If the problem of debts continue the depression is likely to happen very soon, and a horde of other social problems such as family disintegration and erosion of freedom will only get worst.</p>
<p>What the U.S needs now is spiritual guidance. It begins with the individual. If an individual follows God&#8217;s commands, no matter how hard the time is, he will thrive. When individuals get strong, the families will get strong, and then the people will get strong, and God will be able to heal the land and the nation.</p>
<p>Bob Lotich is the author of the blog Christianpf.com. He is able to teach give simple and practical financial advice from a Christian perspective.</p>
<p>It is hard to make personal finance easy, but Bob has the gift! His blog is full of valuable contents. I had been a financial representative before, and I know what is good advice. Bob is unbiased. He tells you everything based on his personal experiences. He is willing to share with you his own success and failures. When Bob recommends something, it&#8217;s because of genuine value it can offer, not because of the comission he could earn.</p>
<p>You can scan every page on his blog real quick because the way Bob writes is so simple. Unlike other financial websites that sound like a wikipedia, Christianpf.com gives you unambigious, straight-to-the-point advice that is reliable and practical.</p>
<h4>Highlight of Christianpf.com</h4>
<p>I especially like the <a href="http://www.christianpf.com/category/debt-help/">debt-help series</a> that Bob has written. When you&#8217;re in debts, you&#8217;re a slave to the lenders. Bob and his wife have been working hard to get out of debts themselves, and in the last 3 years they had paid off $30,000 in consumer debts! Nothing can be more real than someone who has gone through battles and live to tell the tales.</p>
<p>Other articles from Christianpf.com that I find interesting or helpful:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.christianpf.com/75-gas-saving-tips/">75 Gas Saving Tips</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.christianpf.com/how-to-make-money-with-a-blog/">How To Make Money With A Blog</a></p>
<h4>What Else?</h4>
<p>I think the Christianpf.com has pretty much summarized the essential practical steps there are for a Christian to achieve true financial freedom that God planned for an individual. If you look somewhere else, there usually are too much low-quality information. In my <a href="http://www.exodus-from-9to5.com/Christian_Testimony.html">about me page </a>I mentioned how I had spend a couple of years to sort out personal finance and faith. Although Christianpf.com is so easy to read through, it is in fact a website of cleverly condensed nuggets of financial wisdom I had once tried so hard to collect. It can serve as a beacon in the sea of overwhelming financial information. At least make it your starting station as you embark on your own path to financial freedom!</p>
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