Trick or Treating With Mixed Treats

 

Hello My Fellow Wealth Builders,

It's that time of the year again when we dress our children up to portray all kinds of characters, some common, some heroic, some fairytale-ish and some even ghastly.  At the appointed time we send them out all dressed up in garb carrying their most important appendage, the trick or treat bag.  This bag will hold their treasures of candy as they traverse through their neighborhoods knocking on doors greeting the occupants with a resounding, "trick or treat".  Once our children are home and tucked snugly in their beds, we parents would go through their treasure cove of goodies, discarding anything that appears harmful and of course sneaking away a few treats for ourselves.

As I am sitting here on this beautiful morning, sipping tea and gazing out the window.  I marveled at the splendor of God as I looked upon his creation, the leaves on the trees were arrayed in hues of red and orange, the grass which is still green peaking through the forage of leaves that had fallen from their perch as chatty, energetic and rambunctious children gathered at the bus stop.  I thought, what a glorious time of the year, then I remembered Halloween which is just a few days away.  Oh how I detest Halloween.  As a Christian, I don't celebrate it and I never allowed my children to participate.  I detested appearing as an ogre more despicable than the characters that are portrayed during Halloween.  I was the one who had to say "no" to dressing up, going out around the neighborhood, attending trips to haunted houses.  I am the one who had to watch their disappointed faces as they watched their friends go out on a evening of fun.  Oh how their little faces tore at my heart, especially when I remembered all the fun I had as a child trick or treating.  Oh God, Oh God, why?  If I were the painter, I would paint the perfect picture and I would leave out Halloween!  But life is not perfect and we must choose from life's menu of choices.  Those choices can be good for us or they can be bad for us.  So, how do we determine what's good and what's bad?  I use the Bible as my gage.  If it lines up with the Word, then I am good, if not I need to change what I am doing.  When my children were young, I took them to church events on Halloween, where they played games, won prizes, rode ponies, took hayrides and at the end of the evening brought home large bags of candy!

Do I always make the "good" choice?  Sad to say, no I do not.  And because of this, I sometimes miss God completely.  When I miss Him, I usually reap the opposite of what I was looking for, when I step into His acceptable will, nothing changes, but when I step into His perfect will, everything works out for my good.  So what about those mixed bag of treats?  Like I said earlier, life is comprised of good and evil (mixed bag of treats).  Our bag can be work, marriage, parenting, friendships, financial or anything else that pertains to life.  It is up to us to allow God, Our Father, to filter the good and evil through His Word, so that we might live in His perfect will.

Let's talk about finances.  How many times have we stood in faith believing God for a financial breakthrough, a promotion, freedom from debt, a successful business, a job or college tuition.  Probably many times.  Did you know that finances in the Kingdom of God is based on sowing and reaping and the world's financial system is based on buying and selling?  Let me ask you this, have you ever sowed at church believing God for a promotion and then went to work the next day trying to figure out how you could get that promotion?  Don't you see, you just mixed your bag of treats!  You started off using God's system of sowing and reaping and then you went to work and started buying and selling.  You were looking for ways to sell yourself, hoping the job would buy and you would get a promotion.  The Word of God says, the just shall live by faith.  If you have faith in God as your provider, why did you go to work and look for ways to promote yourself?  What you should have done is continue to sow.  God is not fooled, what a man sows so shall he reap.  The next day at work sow yourself, allow that workplace to develop your gifts, use your gifts to bless others knowing that the Father who sees your good works done in secret will reward you in public.  How many of you are still using credit cards or installment loans to purchase what God has already ordained is yours?  Can't you see this keeps us with one leg in the world system and one leg in God's system and then we wonder why nothing is changing but the world keeps getting darker and darker!  I know your natural mind says without a loan you will never buy a house or a car, but cast those thoughts down with the Word that says all things are possible to those who believe.

To live this way, requires our minds to be renewed.  My job today was to sow a seed so that you might take a step.  As you continue to read my newsletter, you will take more steps.  Today we talked from the Field of Prosperity called "Harmony/Balance"

 

With Love,
Sandra Frisbey, Wealth Coach
Licensed Insurance and Securities Agent