Summary
of the Vision
Goals: #1 to provide
for family and #2 to be able to help others when the storm hits
4 Major Focuses
1.
Seek and Serve God only
2.
Pursue Wisdom
3.
Plan Purposefully to Provide for &
Protect my family
4.
To Invest in Lasting Things:
Relationships, Time with God, a Home (not just a house)
Major mechanisms to
prepare:
·
Gold/Silver
·
Animals
·
Crops/Plants
·
Land
·
Businesses/Enterprises
·
Multiple Streams of Income
·
Reproducing Assets
Financial
Instruments (IRA’s, Mutual Funds, etc…)
If you choose financial instruments as one
stream of income, it is important to remember to only invest in things that do
not oppose Scripture. Many companies that are in stock portfolios, mutual funds
and bonds contain pornographic, human cloning, abortion, homosexual, or
alcoholic businesses or businesses that support them. Therefore, research the
funds you choose. Why would God bless a
financial instrument that funds sin?
From my research and seeking counsel
people have told me:
·
Get a Roth (it grows tax free)
·
Invest in Mutual funds
·
Keep your emergency funds in a money
market
Websites
that monitor for unbiblical companies and provide ideas/portfolios for
investing without them:
Savings Tips
Tithe
10% to your local church & give above that to godly organizations and
ministries
Save an
Emergency fund—$1,000
Save
3-6 months worth of your needed living expenses in a liquid account--$10,000+
Save
for “retirement”—simply old age, not to live a life of ease (Read Luke 12:13-21
very carefully)
Paid
for cars are better than new cars. Buy used and save the difference toward more
worthwhile goals.
Save to
reach a giving goal that you have settled in your heart to give (2 Corinthians
9:7)
For a
house an land debt free
(Look
into building your own dome home or a small cabin—it’s really cost effective)
Misc
Tips
Dome homes are
more energy efficient, require less lumber, and are very economical. One
estimate I have heard is that an 800 square foot dome home costs about $10,000
(in areas that don’t have building codes). Even if the cost was two to three
times that, most Americans could afford in their lifetime to save that amount
and have a home debt free.
A few acres will enable one to garden, raise
some animals, and have more ability to provide for your family when times are
tough.
Hard work is
required for anything worthwhile.
Stand up in politics. Ex
18:21-23, 1 Cor 6:1-8, Ezek 3:17-21, 22:29-31
Seek wisdom and
truth!
Have a trust or
will or your estate will get eaten up by the government and not go to those you
love.
Have zero debt.
Don’t cosign.
Being self-sufficient by owning a home
and taking measures to produce your own heating, water, electricity (wind and
solar) and FOOD—animals, plants, orchard, garden—is an admirable and even
Biblically based goal.
Follow the principle of Ecclesiastes,
develop multiples steams of income to be prepared for you know not what evil
will come upon the land.
Give generously and sacrificially.
Provide for the needs of your family
through multiplying resources: plants, orchards, gardens, greenhouse, animals:
goats, chickens, pigs, cows, rabbits.
Live below your income
Relationships
Relationships are the most valuable thing we have on this earth. Let’s
look at just a few of the relationships that will truly make one rich.
Relationship with the Lord
Marriage
Family Devotions
Close Friends
Homeschool your Family
Disciple Others
Be part of the Remnant
Ø Repent
Ø Surrender
to Jesus as Lord
Ø Faithfully
follow Christ
Ø Proclaim
Truth
Ø Abide
in Relationship with Christ
Except
the Lord build the house, they
labour in vain that build it: except the Lord
keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 2 It
is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of
sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 3 Lo, children are
an heritage of the Lord: and
the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows are in the
hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5 Happy
is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed,
but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Psalms 127:1-5 (KJV)
Blessed
is every one that feareth the Lord;
that walketh in his ways. 2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine
hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
3 Thy
wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy
children like olive plants round about thy table. 4 Behold, that thus
shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
5 The
Lord shall bless thee out of Zion:
and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. 6 Yea,
thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
Psalms 128:1-6 (KJV)
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if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Psalms 62:10 (KJV)
