YOU CAN TURN IDEAS INTO DOLLARS!

Today I hear of more people losing their jobs and some having their hours cut back. If there was ever a time to make a budget and cut spending it is now! One of the best tips is to make a list of items necessary for purchase before going to the store. Discipline yourself to buy only the items on the list. Marketing psychologists already have an unfair jump on the average consumer, and will sometimes cause even the best of us to end up purchasing something we really didn’t need. There is a difference between “wants” and “needs.” The Bible says, “I will supply all your needs through Christ Jesus.”
I listened to an interview this morning with America’s #1 inventor. He said most of the great inventions have come from good people suffering hard times during depression. In the Bible, God says that he will give those that serve him “witty inventions.” The game of Monopoly, the car radio, and many other things we use today were all invented during the great depression of the 1930’s. The inventors were blessed by God with millions of dollars! In other words, if we will turn our lives over to Jesus Christ, he will give us “ingenious ideas” (as one Bible translation says), for making extra money even if we are not making enough or have lost our job. In the Bible’s Book of Psalms, David says that he has “never seen the righteous forsaken or God’s children begging for bread.”
Many have turned their hobbies into something fun and profitable. Study well about something before you attempt it and you can make money at it. My brother and I loved collecting coins from childhood days. We both helped put ourselves through college with our collections and then continued on with it to this day. Many times at gun shows, yard sales flee marts, and antique shops, we have found astounding bargains. We have purchased silver coins at a fraction of their melt value. I have purchased old British Queen Victoria Sovereign Gold coins or old U.S. gold coins, like the one pictured, for a fraction of their gold value because they were being sold as a 12 or 14 Karat piece of jewelry just like the gold in which they were mounted. The person selling them must not have taken into account when they priced them that unlike the bezel and chain, the coins are almost pure gold, NOT 14 KARAT GOLD! With the increase in the gold price over time I am sure that they still made money over what they originally paid when they purchased the coin jewelry.
One of the greatest things anybody can do in order to start prospering is to put God first in their lives. God is not intimidated by a depression nor is he afraid that he can’t give you everything you need. God actually wants to give his children that serve him healthy, wealthy, happy lives. In Third John, of the Bible, it says: “Beloved, I desire above ALL things that you prosper and also be in health, to the same degree that your soul is growing and prospering.” This verse is saying, If our souls get fed on God’s Word and prayer, and thereby prosper, then the other parts of our lives will be healthy and prosper too! Jesus also says in Matthew 6:33, “If you put first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, then all these other things you need will be multiplied into your life!” THE MESSAGE BIBLE says, “You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met”