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Are you cultivating or are you chasing “pipe dreams?”

There are a seemingly unlimited amount of coaches today that offer their services to help you to make more money easily, working less hours, while you are traveling around the word enjoying the sights. While I appreciate coaches who do give out valid, useful, actionable training, my perspective on this is that it is deceitful to say to people that it is easy to make money and build businesses. It is also deceitful to say to them that they can travel the world and live a life of ease while making “tons of money.” Many of those who are marketing this type of hype work very hard in their marketing efforts. They spend many thousands of dollars advertising and promoting their products and services in order for you to purchase them. In most cases, the only ones that are making real money on this training are the ones who are selling you the “get rich quick” courses. Proverbs 28:19 has something to say about this. Here is this verse in both the Amplified version and in the Good News Translation:

Proverbs 28:19 (AMP) “He who cultivates his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless people and pursuits will have poverty enough.” Proverbs 28:19 (GNT) “A hard-working farmer has plenty to eat. People who waste time will always be poor.”

Notice how both versions of this verse speak of cultivating their land and hard work. In all successful endeavors, there is good old-fashioned hard work. The scriptures promise that if we cultivate our land, we will have plenty of bread. Our land is our life and the work of our hands. If we waste our precious time in frivolous pursuits or ideas such as these “get rich quick” schemes, we will end up in poverty. The reason why “get rich quick” schemes sound so good and enticing, is because most only want the benefits. They don’t want the responsibility of working hard, planning, investing and discipline. Even politicians today are using this very same promise. Vote for them and they will give you everything for free. In reality, nothing is free. Someone has to pay for things. Reject those who offer grandiose promises of plenty with ease and enjoyment. Stand on the word of God. If you work hard and truly cultivate your land, God says you will have plenty of bread! Reject laziness and apathy, and embrace diligence. Reject the poverty and fear mindset and embrace the understanding that God has already given us all the resources we need all around us. We need to prayerfully and diligently utilize these resources, with wisdom, patience and vision. We also need to be consistent and not be afraid to make mistakes. All successful people make mistakes. Actually, they make more mistakes than most. but they keep on creating services and products that people want or need. And guess what, they become successful in their endeavors. It’s Summer, are you cultivating your land?

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If you desire abundance, do this!

Proverbs 14:23 (TPT) says: “If you work hard at what you do, great abundance will come to you. But merely talking about getting rich while living to only pursue your pleasures brings you face-to-face with poverty.” You might have heard this saying: “talk is cheap.” In other words, if you only speak about one day doing this or that, it won’t come to pass. It won’t materialize. Abundance only comes when someone works hard and focuses their energies, talents, abilities, commitment, partnerships and resources on their goal. How ironic is it that those that sell information on making lots of money while enjoying the easy life actually work very hard to sell their products to us. They spend a lot of money on advertisements. They work long hours going cross-country doing seminars and charging a lot of money for their products, and they make millions off of you and me. And in actuality, the ones that make the big money is them. Proverbs 12:11 (NLV) says: “He who works his land will have all the bread he needs, but he who follows what is of no worth has no wisdom.” Notice what it says. We are to work our land, not somebody else’s. What is your land? It is the place where you have influence. It is the place of your potential. It makes use of your talents and abilities. This is important because most people make excuses as to why they don’t work their land. They blame everyone from their parents to their ethnicity. God promises that if you break away from those lies and deception, God promises that if you break away from those lies and deception and work the land that He gave you, you will rise above those around you and have abundance for every good work that He places in your hand. He is looking to partner with diligent, righteous men and woman who will represent Him well in their generation!

Proverbs 12:11 (NLV) “He who works his land will have all the bread he needs, but he who follows what is of no worth has no wisdom.”