The Power Of Prayer

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Do you regularly pray?

What do you pray for?

Friends, I believe prayer is a way for us to personally communicate to the Lord our God. It's like our own personal hotline that will connect us to God so we can talk to him in private about anything at all.

I use prayer as a way to personally communicate with God. I talk to Him about my dreams, problems, worries, goals, etc. I also ask for forgiveness from my sins, shortcomings, etc. I also ask Him for guidance and blessing, especially if I'm about to start an important journey, or project.

But what else can prayer do?

Well according to Bro. Bo, in one of his old newsletters that is accessible to Truly Rich Club members, prayer is his magic sauce to becoming truly rich. Prayer has been an important and powerful ingredient in his journey to wealth. He shared 4 steps to praying for prosperity.

Desire in Faith - is praying to God what you want. As is stated in Matthew 7:7 "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you." So we pray to God for whatever it is that we want. Even if you feel He doesn't hear you, just continue praying to Him what you want. This prayer is for us, because as we pray repeatedly what we want, we become more open to God's blessing and direction. It makes us more focused.

Feel in Faith - is imagining that what you asked for is already given to you. As stated in Mark 11:23 "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him." Don't doubt that what you asked will be given to you. Believe that God will provide for you and guide you to achieve what you want and just continue working.

Thank in Faith - is praying to God to thank Him for giving you what you want. Thank God for giving you what you want, even if it isn't with you yet. Believe that He will give it to you and thank Him. Be thankful for all the abundance that He will bestow on you.

Act in Faith - is acting as if what you asked for is already given to you. If you asked for an increase in your salary, then give 10% of the amount that you asked for as tithe to God (more on this in the next post). Giving is a way of declaring that abundance and prosperity will be coming your way.

The Start of the Truly Rich Journey

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I'd like to share one of the most important lesson that I learned from Bro. Bo Sanchez, how to be truly rich.

The  idea of becoming rich first came to me when I read Robert Kiyosaki's book, Cashflow Quadrant. The book basically described the four (4) quadrants in which people get their income from: employment, self-employed, business and investing. All quadrants can make people rich, but it is the business and investing quadrant that offers the fastest way for people to become rich. It requires people though to have financial education to be successful in these two quadrants.

After reading the book, I wanted to become a businessman and an investor so I became obsessed about increasing my financial education, constantly reading and researching about the subject. In my quest to increase my financial knowledge, I came across Bro. Bo Sanchez and the Truly Rich Club. Becoming a member was an easy decision for me to make, because I consider anything that can help increase my financial education is considered a good investment. 

After becoming a member, one of the first thing I learned is how to properly invest in the stock market (Bro. Bo provides a free copy of his book "My Maid Invests In The Stock Market"). But one lesson that I learned from Bro. Bo that really stuck to me is also the title of his club, Truly Rich. 

Becoming truly rich is a lesson that really hits me, because as a devout Catholic, becoming rich is something that is looked upon negatively by most Catholics. Wanting to be rich is seen as being greedy, evil, bad, unholy, and so on. In fact, in our society, most of the rich people are generally considered as greedy and selfish. So If I wanted to be a businessman and an investor means that I have to be bad, greedy and selfish.

But wanting to be rich or wanting to have a lot of money is not really evil or bad. Because money in itself is neutral, what makes it good or bad is how you created that wealth and what you intend to do with it. As Bro. Bo mentions in his talks, God gave us the ability to create wealth (Deuteronomy 8:18) so it means that God provided us with talents that we can use that will enable us to create wealth. 

So what will we do with that wealth?

Bro. Bo also shares in his talks that God gave us the ability to create wealth so that the wealth we created will be used to serve Him and His people; which means that, instead of becoming rich for our own selfish desires, we become rich to serve God and help His people (people who are poor and in need).

After learning that, I looked at becoming rich on a completely different level. Instead of wanting to be rich for my own benefit and comfort, I now wanted to be rich to help my family and other people who may require it. This somehow puts more meaning in my reasons for wanting to be rich.