Spiritual Wealth Building

by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker has been a best seller on three major business book lists. I was curious as to why. So I took time to read his book. He has some insightful observations.

Eker, who was not at first financially successful, found the biggest reason people fail in business and efforts to make money is based on how they think. We make financial decisions based on what we have learned at a very young age... from parents, teachers, those we hung around with. Most attitudes are self defeating.

We need to change our "poor" thinking thought patterns to "rich" thinking thought patterns. Make a conscious effort to remove old, subconsciously imbedded, poor-minded preconditioned thoughts. Replace them with wealth building thought patterns… create a rich-minded "money blueprint.”

It is the “way” millionaires think which leads them to wealth.

He outlined a formula... T > F > A = results. Our Thinking creates Feelings, from these feelings we take Actions which yield Results. The origin from this is from how we have programmed our mind.
Our past has conditioned it to automatically think a certain way. So to make this work we need to “Program” millionaire thought patterns into our brain. Then adjust the formula to P > T > F > A = wealth results.

Eker went on to identify 17 wealth files that we need to have filed away in our brain. We must, through deliberate mental reprogramming, imprint these files into our subconscious.
For more on this, note:
http://www.millionairemind.com/

Man seeks wealth of the world.
But Jesus said the secret formula is to pursue the principles of His Kingdom first and all these things will be added. He also said it is what is in the heart that defiles the man. Eker points out having the right attitude toward others relates a great deal with how well we do in wealth building. Riches within itself is not bad, but what matters is what we do with them.

Jesus also exhorted us to control our thought life, and how we think of others is what will come back to us. Spirit enhances the "program, thoughts, feelings, action to results" formula. First meditate on The Principles of Spirit in the Bible day and night (Joshua 1)... program your mind into Spirit.

Seek Divine insight, or Spiritual Intelligence, for what you are to do. As God told Joshua, seek direction from Divine Insight first and God's very Spirit went ahead of him. He first had to find out what the Spirit of God's strategy was. Victory was already won when going into battle… following a specific Spiritually-produced plan.

The thoughts (strategies) for the battle reflect Spirit Intelligence which then leads to a Passionate sense of pending victory. This leads to courageous action which gets unprecedented results.

So the Spirit-led formula would be:
Reprogram thinking with Spirit-based thinking.
Seek Spiritual Insight, Intelligence.
Find Divine Purpose.
When we move with Spiritual purpose, perpetual Passion is produced.
Actions are confident and powerful.
the Results are outstanding...
because with a Spirit-inspired formula Super-Natural results are accomplished.

The Apostle said to renew your mind and be transformed by the Power of the Spirit overriding the thoughts we learned through life experiences… which are of a lower level. When operating from a higher level the Most High God, we can expect great victory in our lives.

Riches of a higher level are the riches of the Kingdom of Heaven. Build wealth within the Kingdom of Heaven first, and all these other areas will fall into place.

Think constantly on these things:
“Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” (Philippians 4:8, NLT)

Make this declaration each day recognizing the very Power that goes before you.
“Because the Very Power of Jesus Spirit works in me, the Spirit accomplishes more than I can even think of or hope is even possible.”
(Ephesians 3:20)