Paul Lindsay

Your competition would love to catch you by surprise the next time you introduce a new product or service. Secrets, after all, are worth money to a business, which often gives one company an edge over it’s rivals. 1. Buy your competitors products The first and often the most useful step in commercial intelligence is simply to go out and buy the product your competitor produces. Test it, take it apart and analyze it’s cost of production. 2. Study your competitors territory Within many industries, little communities spring up whose members frequent the same restaurants, work in the same buildings, etc. It pays to spend time in these common areas. 3. Read the right publications Your industries trade journal is required reading. It is impossible to go very far beyond the information found there, even on a budget. The Wall Street Journal has printed speeches given by financial analysts from various corporations. 4. Befriend a securities analyst Financial specialists must keep up with new de...

*Steps To Becoming Financially Stable *  1. Eliminate all high interest debt 2. Keep one months living expenses in an interest bearing checking account. *Begin a savings plan *Have a pouch for tithes  *Have a pouch for savings (10% when available) *Have a pouch for special giving (approx. 10% when available)  *Have a pouch for taxes from additional outside income 3. Keep three to six months of living expenses in a money market fund or savings account.  *Open a mutual fund account in the amount of $100.00, it is a great way to begin building wealth. Emergency Money For: *Car repairs. Consider your past cost compared to the cost of making monthly car payments for a new car. Consider which is more cost effective.  *Home repairs. Consider for example, is the furnace in slightly worse shape than the roof? *Short term disability. It is best to insure against possible issues with an insurance policy. If the disability policy has a waiting period, it wou...

If you haven't reached your goals or you may not have a plan listing any goals, I want to challenge you to make a list. This list will give you an opportunity to proceed further than you thought possible. Some have used various aids to keep them focused and on point, as they head toward accomplishing their plan. Some use charts that include pictures, scriptures, words and phrases that represent their goals, dreams and desires. By doing this, you will advance in your career, social life, health, education, self care and so much more. Creating a vision chart is nothing more than creating a map for your life to follow, so you can reach your destination. Put your vision plan where you can see it. 1. Write The Vision.  Habakkuk 2:2 -3 NKJV encourages us "write the vision" Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will ...

Ecclesiastes 10:19 NKJV A feast is made for laughter, And wine makes merry; But money answers everything. This can mean that money is needed for bread and wine, and/or that money provides life's needs. Look back to Eccl 7:12 (NIV) for another example of how it is acknowledged that money is needed: Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor. Remember that knowledge is just the beginning of wisdom. True wisdom gives benefits in this life and the life to come. Proverbs 17:8 NKJV A present is a precious stone in the eyes of its possessor; Wherever he turns, he prospers.

Jesus is described as a babe here, a newborn. Here it mentions angels and shepherds, their is no mention of wise men. Luke 2:1-20 NKJV And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the...

The Babylonian System has been destroyed. We are not controlled by it. Jeremiah 50:1-46 NKJV 1 The word that the Lord spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. 2 “Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim—do not conceal it — Say, ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.’ 3 For out of the north a nation comes up against her, Which shall make her land desolate, And no one shall dwell therein. They shall move, they shall depart, Both man and beast. 4 “In those days and in that time,” says the Lord , “The children of Israel shall come, They and the children of Judah together; With continual weeping they shall come, And seek the Lord their God. 5 They shall ask the way to Zion, With their faces toward it, saying, ‘Come and let us join ourselves to the Lord In a perpetual covenant That will not be forgotten.’ 6 “My people have been lost ...

Isaiah 58:1-2 NKJV “Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God. It is important to speak clearly when someone who has confessed a relationship with Christ and has chosen to walk in sin, especially open sin. They need to be encouraged to confess it and turn from it. The Holy Ghost will certainly convict them of walking outside of the covenant they made with the Lord. As we look at verse two, notice that we can benefit ourselves by, 1. Seeking God daily (Prayer Life). 2. Delight to know His ways (Study the Word). 3. Don't forsake God's commands. 4. Take delight in going into God's presence.