Money Matters (1/15)-How Valuable Are We?

photo credit: Tawny Kate-aen

Matthew 6:26- Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

The song by Swith Foot, We Were Ment To Live, comes to mind when I read this verse. My grasp of this verse is simple! We are God’s creation and hence children of God, with the capacity to do great things; We were meant to live for so much more! Yet sometimes we get into this state of mind where we forget our maker, we forget that the things we have been bless with belong not to us, but to the Lord. All things are His. He can easily give and take away but the one thing that is promised, is that he will take care of you! Are we not more valuable then the birds of the sky? Their heavenly father feeds them, how much more for us?

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Broker Therapy; Is your broker playing you?

The stock market is falling swiftly, and you don’t have the luxury of time. So I’ll get straight to the point:

If you haven’t already taken the necessary steps in removing money from the stock market and moving into other vehicles of interest, then you better act quick! Be prepared for a very gloomy 2008+.

But beware: Most brokers will try to talk you out of it . They have a hidden agenda. They want to keep you as a customer; and they know that, once customers sell their stocks, they often close their brokerage accounts.

With this in mind, many brokers have been trained with up to seven sales pitches designed to keep you in the market come hell or high water.

Here are some of those pitches!:
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