God's Secret Recipe to Make You Rich

By Douglas Robinson

Whoever has the knowledge of the secret of wealth and success will be blessed with wealth and abundance. Whoever does not have that knowledge, will have whatever little they have taken away. There is scriptural evidence that God has blessed people through the ages with phenomenal wealth and success, so why won't he bless you? God has a secret recipe to make you rich - use it!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Douglas Robinson
• Release date: Feb 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311922809

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God’s Secret Recipe to Make you Rich

Douglas Robinson

Published by Douglas Robinson at Smashwords

Copyright 2015 Douglas Robinson

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Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1: Acknowledge Your Right and Your Responsibility

Chapter 2: Believe in Yourself

Chapter 3: Focus on the prize

Chapter 4: Have Faith

Chapter 5: Take Decisive Action

Chapter 6: Persevere and Never Give Up

Chapter 7: Sow and Reap Your Way to Wealth

Epilogue

Bibliography

Prologue

Why is it that some people seem to have everything; money, expensive cars, nice houses and success, and other people struggle through life?

Kevin was a troubled man, he felt as though he had been struggling the whole of his life. As soon as he got some extra money in the bank, some money that would give him a cushion, money he could save; he would be blindsided by a financial emergency that seemed to appear out of nowhere; something would break, or wear out, or worse, something would get stolen and have to be replaced. Not only would his savings be gone in the blink of an eye, but he always seemed to have to pay extra. Kevin felt that he wasn’t just staying in one place; he was going backwards… and fast! He had obviously missed something along the way. It just wasn’t fair, what had he done wrong?

Kevin felt absolutely bushwhacked, he was down emotionally and feeling very depressed. It had been a tough few months and his bank account was taking strain. No matter how hard he worked, no matter how hard he tried, he just could not get his head above water. He felt that he had nothing to show for his life. He worked hard and made money, but it just seemed that he wasn’t working hard enough.

One evening he sat in deep contemplation pondering his serious state of lack and feeling very sorry for himself. He was sitting in an old rocking chair in the lounge. It was late at night and the family had gone to bed. Kevin was alone with his thoughts, cradling a cup of tea in his hands. The room was dark except for the light of a standard lamp in the corner. Both rocking chair and standard lamp were heirlooms that had been passed down through the family. They were old and showed wear and tear, but the chair was comfortable, and it was his favourite place to sit and think. As he sat alone with his thoughts, rocking gently in the chair, he became aware of a passage from the Bible. It didn’t appear miraculously, or in a blinding flash of light, it simply appeared slowly, drifting into his conscious; The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven have been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have abundance. Whoever does not have even what little he has, will be taken from him, (Matthew 13:11-12).

Although Kevin had gone to Sunday school as child and had attended confirmation classes, he never really understood that passage from scripture, and had always thought that this was grossly unfair. How can someone who already has everything be given more and how can someone who has little, have whatever he has be taken from him? How could God be so cruel? Right at that moment, he believed that what little he had was being taken away from him and he didn’t deserve it. As far as he was concerned life was very unfair. Kevin was cross, resentful and feeling very depressed.

He sat there in the dim light of the old standard lamp contemplating the words that were now so clearly imprinted in his consciousness. Slowly it began to dawn on him that there was a relationship between his current state of lack of money and the words from scripture. As he sat thinking deeply about the words, he began to have insight into what that piece of scripture meant to him at that particular time. He took poetic license and changed the wording a little to suit the situation:

Whoever has the knowledge of the secret of wealth and success will be blessed with wealth and abundance. Whoever does not have that knowledge, will have whatever little they have taken away.

The message was very clear; people who are rich and successful obviously know the secret of success, and are able to apply that secret very well. He thought if they can do it why can’t he do it as well? What do they know that he doesn’t know? What is the knowledge that he needs to be successful? What is he missing? There must be a secret recipe that successful people have, but what is it? These thoughts rushed around in Kevin’s mind, but unfortunately no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn’t find answers to these vexing questions.

Kevin finished his tea and went to bed and after a long period of restlessness drifted off into a fitful sleep. Sometime during the night he woke up with a start. He had been dreaming, a really vivid dream, so vivid that it appeared real. He had a very clear image in his mind, he was talking to someone; he couldn’t see who it was, but the message was very, very clear… God wants you to be rich!

God wants me to be what? he thought incredulously.

He lay there in the early morning darkness; the words clear in his mind. Kevin is a vivid dreamer, but like most people, he has no recollection of them when he wakes up. He knows that he has been dreaming, but he can’t remember them. This frustrates his long suffering wife no-end, because she is often woken up by his tossing and turning in bed, and his moaning, and she wants to know what he has been dreaming about, but alas, he can’t remember, but this time it was different. Stress must be getting the better of me, he thought. I’m imagining things; my mind is playing tricks. His immediate reaction was to toss the idea as merely a dream, a figment of his overactive imagination, and he tried with some limited success to go back to sleep.

However, over the next few days he became more and more uneasy. The thought that God wanted him to be rich just wouldn’t go away. It kept percolating up from his subconscious mind, intruding rudely into his conscious thoughts in an irritating way. At the time he was not aware of the powerful effect that dreams can have, and he tried very hard to put them out of his mind. It may have been a dream, but he could still remember the words and the circumstances very vividly.

Kevin has subsequently discovered that dreams are useful indicators of what is happening in our inner world, in our subconscious mind. Psychologists and psychoanalysis know this very well and make the analysis of the dreams of their patients a significant part of their work. Dreams that are vivid enough to be remembered can be interpreted and invariably provide very helpful information to the Psychologist. As we shall see later in this book, the subconscious mind, or as Sigmund Freud preferred to call the ‘unconscious’ mind, because we are completely unconscious of its workings, is always working – it never sleeps and is always processing information. It is our subconscious mind that continuously receives inputs from our external environment, and feeds the important stuff up to or conscious or ‘executive control centre’ mind for action and decision-making. It is your subconscious mind that produces the dreams while you are asleep, and some of them can be extremely vivid.

Most of the time we pay little attention to the thoughts being presented to us by our subconscious, either because we may not be ready for them, or because they occur out of nowhere and we don’t have any frame of reference for them. Often the thoughts are very fragmented and fleeting. But occasionally, these thoughts can become very pervasive and insistent, almost to the point of irritation. It is as though your subconscious mind is taking your conscious mind by the collar and trying to shake some sense into it, demanding to be noticed. This happened with Kevin; the thought God wants me to be rich kept on invading his conscious, until he was driven to action. As we shall see later in this book all action is first preceded by a thought.

Well Kevin thought If God wants me to be rich, how can I let him down?

He really didn’t know where to start, and again, as he was trying to get to sleep a couple of nights later, thoughts were rushing in and out of his mind like little children in a playground. He was getting irritated and tried to tune them out by focusing on the thought that God really wanted him to be rich. As he lay there in the darkness he spoke silently to his conscious mind, his ‘inner coach’, and said Ok coach, where do you think I should start? It has been said that the first sign of madness is talking to yourself, and the second sign is answering your own question, but that is exactly what happened. Kevin’s mind was quiet now, the noisy little children thoughts had all disappeared from whence they had come, and he was now ready to sleep, when all of a sudden the words seek and ye shall find, knock and the door shall be opened, ask and it will be given unto you, popped into his consciousness. Of course! The evidence of the secrets of wealth must lie in the oldest and greatest self-help book that has ever been written – the Bible. This single book is probably the source of most of the millions of self-help books that have been written because of the wealth of wisdom contained within its pages. Scriptural passages were popping into his mind and obviously he needed to go to the source of these messages in order to get a deeper insight and meaning.

Kevin began to read the bible again not just from a purely scriptural point of view, but from a literal point of view. He started to look deeper at the messages hidden in the chapters of both the Old and the New Testament. He began to look at specific words and phrases. He began to look for biblical evidence of riches, wealth and success. He found that God has blessed people with phenomenal riches and wealth throughout the ages, and hidden in the various books that make up the Bible there is a wealth of knowledge and information about secular things, not just religious dogma and theology.

Kevin realised that there are seven key principles that are essential for success, and which, if applied diligently will give someone everything they desire; riches, wealth and success. Kevin has shared the seven key principles with me, and has asked that I share them with you. He believes that the success principles will give you anything you want, but you must truly desire it, because desire is one of the prime motivators of all human activity, if not the single most important motivator.

The purpose of this book is to share these seven success principles with you. Although I am the writer, I use Kevin’s words and ideas. In some places I write in the first person, and in others I write in the second person and in a couple of places I have given examples of my own experiences. I sincerely hope that the message is interpreted in the way Kevin intends it to be.

A principle is a fundamental truth that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour. It is a foundation for a chain of reasoning. A principle has also been called a law or rule; it is a basic assumption. It is something that is observed in nature and is the way a natural system is constructed. Everything in nature works as a system, and a system is made up of a number of interrelated parts which work together to achieve an objective, outcome or result. All parts have to work together, and the effective operation of the system is not possible if any of the fundamental principles