Money 02 (Jun 10 - Sep 11)

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Prayer to Cleanse the Currency

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A call to action to Cleanse the Currency, and an invitation to shift awareness regarding money and the financial matrix.

You can offer the intention and service to cleanse and clear the discordance off all currency and money that comes into your life with every monetary transaction.

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Think Abundance Now

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What you think about, you bring about

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Income Abundance by Abraham-Hicks

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1) Your disappointment is your indicator
2) Bring yourself to feeling better
3) After just 68 seconds of having positive expectancy, you are on your way again to manifesting
4) Checkbook game: First Day - spend $1000. Continue to Day 365 where you spend $365,000
5) Speak in the direction of where you want to be

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As you set a financial goal, it is not only about the expansion for yourself; it's about the expansion of all of those who are involved in that which you are about.

In other words, it creates this nucleus, this machine, that allows so many to begin to thrive along with you.

It's much bigger than finances.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in San Antonio, TX on Saturday, November 13th, 2004 # 89

Source: abraham-hicks.com

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10 Money Lessons From The Bible By Joe Mont

BOSTON (TheStreet) -- You probably won't find a copy of the King James Bible on the "business" or "personal finance" shelf of your local bookstore or library.

The Ten Commandments are just the beginning of Biblical financial lessons that can be applied to modern life.

The following are 10 areas of financial guidance that can be found in the pages of the Bible:


1) Avoid greed

A strict, literal reading of some Bible passages might not sit well with the wealthy. In championing the poor and oppressed, rich men are often cast in a negative light.

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" (Mark 10:25) is an oft-quoted passage that might not sit well with those looking to amass and preserve wealth.

Nor is the famous warning: "But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness" (Timothy 6:9).

Even harsher words, particularly scary for the current wave of gold bugs: "Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire" (James 5:1).

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Reduce debt

Debt only empowers the wicked and drags down hope for your prosperity, the Bible says. Those ancient warnings against money lenders are just as relevant today for households that have maxed out credit cards, sought the immediate gratification of rent-to-own plans or taken on mortgages beyond their means.

Proverbs 22:7 cautions: "The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower becomes the lender's slave."

Those who leapt into subprime mortgages they couldn't afford or have a car in danger of being repossessed might have been spared a lot of grief if they contemplated the guidance in Proverbs 22:26 to "not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you."

As for those who profit from debt, banks may not be inclined to heed this warning found in Exodus: "If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest."

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Save more

For years, the rate at which Americans saved was so low it could nearly qualify as a rounding error. Scared into reducing debt by recession, the nation is a bit more serious about tucking aside some of each paycheck. Students of the Bible would certainly see this as a lesson that has long been stressed.

Corinthians 16:2 offers this advice for sticking to a savings plan: "On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come."

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The subprime mortgage crisis

As for those considering just walking away from an underwater mortgage, Psalm 37:2 might be seen as handing out some stern guidance: "The wicked borrows and does not pay back, but the righteous is gracious and gives."

Ecclesiastes 5:5 also warns that, "It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay."

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Pay your taxes

Conservative talk radio kingpin Rush Limbaugh may have missed an important passage when he tried to use the New Testament as a basis for supporting tax cuts for the wealthy during an April broadcast.

"Taxes and budget cuts, what would Jesus do?" Limbaugh asked. "Well, what would Jesus take? That's the question people need to ask to put this in perspective. Of course the answer is, nothing. You want to start equating yourselves and your policies to Jesus Christ, you better first start asking, what did Jesus take, from whom, and how did he go about it? What was his plan for redistribution?"

Critics fired back by pointing to numerous occasions where Jesus defended taxation and, more broadly, the redistribution of wealth.

"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's," is a famous quote from Matthew.

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Be a good boss for an ethical company

As an employer, are you always looking for ways to trim your payroll, reduce benefits or crack the whip for greater productivity? Are you outsourcing manufacturing to sweat shops? Are overseas vendors so stressed by your demands that some are actually killing themselves?

The Bible warns that you should start trying to earn that "World's Greatest Boss" coffee mug.

"Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you," says James 5:4. "The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty."

Proverbs 22:16 similarly warns: "He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty."

As for employees, working hard is a recipe for success. Proverbs 10:4 puts it as, "A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich."