Reverend Ike was known for saying the worst thing you can do for poor people is to be one of them. Too many people are running around these days with a ghetto consciousness. Their ghetto mentality keeps them exactly where they are.
I’ve discovered that the best thing that poor people can do for themselves is give. However, if you ask someone who’s struggling financially why don’t they give they will give (no pun intended) you all types of excuses. The main excuse they’ll utter is they don’t have it to give and when they get some they will give.
You see it’s a vicious cycle because if you don’t give from where you are now you will never have more to give. Earl Nightingale was famous for saying if you want to feel the heat from the fireplace you’ve got to put the wood in first. Demanding heat from a fireplace when there’s no wood is simply ludicrous.
Get your mind out of the ghetto. Get away from your ghetto friends. Leave your ghetto environment. Get more from life. Get more money. Get more freedom. Get more spirituality. Get more health. It all there for the taking. You are the creator of your own world and no one else. You are orchestrating every moment of what you currently see. Today you are weaving your tomorrows. You and only you are laying the foundation.
Here’s one of mine and the late Reverend Ike’s favorite poems:
I Am, That I am…
I at last have reached my goal
And solved the mystery of my soul.
I am That to which I prayed,
“That” to which I looked for aid,
I am “That” which I did seek,
I am my own mountain peak.
I upon creation look
As a page in my own book’
For I, the “One,” the many make
Of substance which from “Me” I take;
For All is Me–there are not two;
Creation is myself all through.
What I grant unto Myself,
I take down from My own Self,
And give to Me,–the only “One”
For I’m the Father and the Son.
When I want, I do but see
My wishes coming forth in “Me”
For I’m the Knower and the Known;
Ruler, Subject, and the Throne.
The “Three in One” is what I Am;
And hell itself is but a dam
Which I did put in my own stream…
Then in a nightmare I did dream
That I was not the only “One”
And thus, by Me, was pain begun,
Which ran its course till I awoke
And found that “I” with “Me” did joke.
So now that I do stand awake,
I, my Throne do wisely take,
And rule My Kingdom, which is “Me’
A Master, through Eternity.
That’s my spin on it.
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