English idiom: Burn the Candle at Both Ends

 Burn the Candle at Both Ends 

‘Burn the candle at both ends’ is such an old phrase. I mean, who burns candles unless there’s a power outage. And can you even picture a candle being burned at both ends?

If the phrase has left you feeling confused, you’ve come to the perfect place. Here , I will teach you what the phrase means and explain how it may have originated. Then we’ll go onto usage of the phrase, including how and when you can use the phrase, before going through some examples of alternative phrases that you can use in its place.

And without further ado, let’s get down to it…

What is the meaning of the phrase ‘burn the candle at both ends’?

The phrase ‘burning the candle at both ends’ dates back to the period before we had electricity, when we had to rely on candles for light whenever there’s insufficient sunlight.

The term was used to describe when someone is trying to do too much in a short period of time, which means that they have to stay up late at night, and get up early in the morning to get it all done.

Following on from that, when someone has to burn a candle late into the night, and then light a candle before sunrise in order to complete a project of some kind, then the candle is likely to burn out, and the individual is also at risk of reaching ‘burn out’.

What is the origin of the phrase ‘burn the candle at both ends’?

The phrase ‘burn the candle at both ends’ originally showed up in the French language: ‘Bruloient la chandelle par less deux bouts’. It first appeared in the English language in the early 17th century, but back then it had a different meaning. It referred to wasting material wealth, since burning a candle at both ends can be considered needlessly wasteful.

However, of the course time, the phrase took on its more modern meaning about overextending oneself in their efforts, as popularised by the poet Edna St. Vincent Millayin her poem ‘First Fig’ published in 1920 where she wrote:

“My candle burns at both ends;

It will not last the night;

But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—

It gives a lovely light!” 

We also have the phrase ‘burn the midnight oil’ which refers to staying up late, and this dates back to at least 1635, since it appears in a poem published at this time titled ‘Emblems’ written by the English author Francis Quarles, the official chronologer to the City of London, who wrote:

‘We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil,

We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.’

How and when to use the phrase ‘burn the candle at both ends’?

The phrase ‘burn the candle at both ends’ is suitable to describe both personal and professional circumstances. For example, you could use it to describe how you’ve been working long hours on a particular project for work, or equally you can use it to describe how you’ve been putting long hours in for a hobby.

It is generally considered informal language on the whole, and it is also used as a warning. For example, someone might say ‘If you keep burning the candle at both ends, both you and the candle will burn out’.

What can you use in place of the phrase ‘burn the candle at both ends’?

If you’d like to choose an alternative phrase to ‘burn the candle at both ends’ for example if you’re speaking with a non-native English speaker who may be unfamiliar with English idioms, then there are many alternative phrases to choose from. Here are some examples for you.

• Mind you don’t overwork yourself.

• Don’t do hours you don’t get paid for.

• Be careful you don’t burn out putting so many hours in.

• I’m working all the hours God sends to get this job done.

• I’ve been working late into the night and getting up early in the morning for this project.

• This project has had me working late into the night and getting up early in the morning.

Final word

So, to sum up, the phrase ‘burn the candle at both ends’ means working on something late into the night and early in the morning, or generally putting long hours in. The phrase dates back to the use of candlelight prior to the invention of electric light, but the phrase was not truly popularised until the year 1920, when it appeared in a poem by poet Edna St. Vincent Millayin called ‘First fig’.

The phrase is often used as a warning that if someone spends too much time on something, then they are not getting enough rest, and are at risk of reaching burn out.

Knowing from the Lord that he had but "five-times-three" years to finish his work, John Sung burned the candle of his life at both ends without any let up. He died in Peking August 18, 1944 at the age of forty-two, consumed in the Master's service.

40 John Sung Revival Sermons

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

In the early years of the thirties, "the voice of one crying in the wilderness" of the Church in China began to echo to her sons and daughters in Southeast Asia. It was the voice of a Chinese John the Baptist, the greatest preacher China has ever heard.

The voice of John Sung, preaching repentance and forgiveness of sins through the blood of Jesus Christ, brought thousands, campaign after campaign, to the feet of the Saviour. The voice of John Sung, preaching holiness and dedication, called thousands more to an evangelistic crusade and hundreds into the fulltime ministry. In a brief fifteen years, this apostle of modern China had traversed the length and breadth of his own country and all over Southeast Asia, winning several hundred thousand souls to Christ.

John Sung was born in Hinghwa, Fukien Province in 1901, one of many sons and daughters of a Methodist pastor. A brilliant scholar with a high ambition, he found his way to the United States in 1920. From 1920 to 1926 he applied himself with all his might to the study of science. He graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry at the head of his class.

At the zenith of success glittering with many honours, there came the Word of the Lord Jesus to him, "For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

Remembering his vow of earlier years to serve the Lord, John Sung gave up a lucrative profession to study for the Gospel ministry. He was introduced by a friend to Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Alas! A seminary that taught a "God-is-dead" theology under the care-taking of a principal surnamed (Henry Sloane) Coffin became but a "cemetery" to John Sung's troubled soul. But God showed John Sung the way to salvation and life everlasting as he diligently sought Him, the modernist theologians notwithstanding. This brought such a flood of joy to his quickened soul that he literally burst out to tell his teachers and friends of his newfound salvation.

    Supposing John Sung had lost his mind, the Seminary authorities sent him to a mental hospital. Here he was kept for 193 days, days of bitter suffering, yet of deeper communion with his Lord. During this period, says William E. Schubert his bosom friend, he read his Bible forty times!

    His wilderness days over, John Sung made his way back to China, answering the call of God to minister to his own people. As the ship he sailed in ploughed through the Pacific Ocean, he tossed into the sea all his academic awards, even medals and gold keys, save his doctor's diploma to show his father in filial piety. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it" (Mark 8:35).

The first three years of his labours were years of probation. From 1930 onwards, however, the Lord began to multiply his ministry, more and more, until the close of the decade. Knowing from the Lord that he had but "five-times-three" years to finish his work, John Sung burned the candle of his life at both ends without any let up. He died in Peking August 18, 1944 at the age of forty-two, consumed in the Master's service.

One decade after John Sung's death, his exploits were made known to the English-speaking churches by Leslie T. Lyall through "John Sung, the Flame for God in the Far East." Other English publications on John Sung, such as William E. Schubert's "I Remember John Sung" and numerous articles appearing in magazines and periodicals from time to time have also increased this knowledge, to the edification of saints old and young.

In the Introduction to his book, "I Remember John Sung," veteran missionary William E. Schubert says of China's flaming evangelist:

Dr. John Sung was probably the greatest preacher of this century. I have heard almost all the great preachers from 1910 until now, including R. A. Torrey, Billy Sunday, Henry Jowett, the great holiness preachers, the Methodist bishops, including Bishop Quayle, even Harry Emerson Fosdick, who set a great example of the homiletic art, though I did not agree with him, and finally Billy Graham. Yet John Sung surpassed them all in pulpit power, attested by amazing and enduring results, of which we will give examples later.

A young missionary after reading Schubert's book in which are appended a couple of John Sung's Sermons asked for more. So have other English readers of Dr. Sung's biographies.

Dr. Sung's sermons are published in Chinese by my aunt Miss Alice Doo. With her cooperation and in response to popular request, I have translated a first instalment of twenty sermons (of a total of forty), particularly the shorter ones and those it was my blessing to hear at the peak of his ministry in Singapore in 1935. The reason why Forty Sermons are chosen is that this was the number preached in Singapore during a two-week period, three sermons a day. To go through all forty sermons would give the reader a sampling of the Revival we went through.

These Sermons are called "Revival Sermons", for such they are. The aim of the preacher in these sermons is the breaking down of strongholds of resistance of the unregenerate heart, rebuke of carnal Christians and professional Church workers. The style of John Sung's preaching is eminently expository, verse by verse, under a given theme. But the centrality of any theme is always the Cross --- Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:3). Hence the power of his sermons.

Another feature of John Sung's sermon delivery was the coupling of the message with an appropriately chosen Gospel chorus --- one with a catchy tune, Western or Oriental, that helped to drive home the sermon into the hearer's heart. The evangelist usually preached a two-hour sermon. That he was able to keep up the interest of his audience was by the recurrent singing of these choruses. Hence the inclusion of a "Theme Song" at the beginning or end of these translated sermons.

Though much of the power released by the Holy Spirit during the Revival in the thirties could not be preserved on paper, the faithfully recorded words of his sermons are surely a means of grace to lead a new generation to Christ. Nor are some of the things he said without reproach, for after all, he was but an earthern vessel --- but God was pleased to use him for His own glory.

If some souls will be brought into the Kingdom and oldtimer Christians re-quickened through these Sermons in English syllables, the efforts of this translator will not have been made in vain.

    Lord, send the old-time power, the Pentecostal power!

Thy floodgates of blessing on us throw open wide!

    Lord, send the old-time power, the Pentecostal power

That sinners be converted and Thy Name glorified!

 

speak directly to the deepest needs of the human heart

    Each new sunrise greets us with choices. 

   What we'll believe, how we'll respond, where we'll place our trust. Behind every decision are unseen battles, spiritual weariness, emotional burdens, and the quiet ache for clarity and strength.

    But beloved, you were never meant to face the day alone. 

   Father God has already made provision not just through strength and grace but through His Word alive and speaking and there is no better place to begin than in the Psalms. 

   These three psalms carefully chosen speak directly to the deepest needs of the human heart.

   Psalm 27 offers confidence in chaos. When fear rises and the unknown looms, this psalm reminds you that God is your light, your salvation, and your safe place. You don't have to pretend to be strong. You just need to lean into the One who is. Our Father God is strong always.

 Psalm 34 is written for the brokenhearted, the weary, and the wounded. It tells the truth about pain, but louder still it tells the truth about Father God. He hears. He rescues. He surrounds. When your cries are messy, he still listens. When your courage fails, His compassion holds. 

   Psalm 51 is a psalm of mercy and renewal. And when  guilt whispers and shame lingers, this is your reset. This is where your heart is made new. Where grace does not just forgive, it rebuilds. Where your past does not define you, but God's mercy restores you.

   They are more than verses. They are weapons, wells of living water, songs for the soul. I encourage you, listen and declare these psalms for the next seven days. Why 7 days? 

   Because in the Bible, seven is the number of divine completion, spiritual fullness, and covenant promise. 

   In Genesis, God created the heavens and the earth in six days. And on the seventh day, he rested,  signifying completion. 

  In Joshua 6, the Israelites marched around Jericho for 7 days. And on the seventh day, the walls fell, signifying breakthrough. 

 In 2 Kings 5, the prophet Elisha told Naaman, the commander of the Aramean king's army,  to wash in the Jordan river seven times. And after the seventh dip, he was healed, signifying restoration. 

   Seven isn't just a number. It's a rhythm of heaven. When you meditate on these psalms for 7 days, you're not just repeating words. You're aligning your heart with God's promises. 

  You're planting seeds of truth that grow into strength. You're building a spiritual rhythm that invites breakthrough, healing, and peace. 

   So today we declare together, 🗣️: "My strength comes from the Lord, my deliverer, and my  healer. 

   Let the psalms lead you. Let the Word hold you. And let the next seven days begin your journey into deeper victory and divine restoration." 

  Let's begin with bold confidence. Psalm 27:1, 🗣️: "The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?" 

David's words in Psalm 27 are not written from a palace, but from a battlefield of the soul. They are not theoretical comfort. They are tried and tested truth. When he declared, "The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I  fear?" It was not because he had never known fear. It was because he had faced it and found God greater. 

  Sometimes we wake up with a heaviness we can't name. We feel surrounded not by armies but by deadlines, loneliness, disappointment, or dread.    Psalm 27 reaches into that space and lights a candle in the dark. David begins not with his fears, but begins with his faith in GOD. The Lord is. David names God's identity before he names his enemy. 

   Light is more than brightness. Light is clarity, guidance, hope. 

  Salvation is not just being rescued from hell, but being delivered today from hopelessness, from confusion, from the crushing weight of self-reliance. 

  When God becomes your first thought, fear loses its grip. 

 It's because he had God. And that's our challenge to trust not in what we can control, but in the One who controls it all. This psalm doesn't promise absence of threat. It promises presence of peace in the midst of threat. Courage is not the absence of fear. It is choosing to move forward in the strength of God even while fear whispers. 

   Remember the story of Elisha and his servant in 2 Kings 6. Surrounded by an enemy army, the  servant panicked. But Elisha prayed, "Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see." And suddenly the servant saw chariots of fire on the hills. What surrounds you is surrounded by God. 

 Declare Psalm 27. When your spirit trembles, let it remind you. God goes before you. He shines his light in your darkness. You are never outnumbered when the Lord is your salvation. 

Psalm 34:4 remind us. I sought the Lord and He answered me. He delivered me from all my fears. 

  David wrote Psalm 34 at a strange and humbling time after pretending to be insane before King Achish (also called Abimelech) in Gath, to escape harm.  1 Samuel 21:13. It was messy. It was not his  proudest moment. Yet out of that desperation came this praise because even there God delivered him. 

  We often  think deliverance only happens when we do everything right. But Psalm 34 reminds us God answers even from the cave, even from the confusion, even when we feel like we barely scraped by. 

  David sought the Lord. And the Lord  didn't shame him. He answered him. This is not a distant theological promise. It's personal. 

He delivered me from all my fears. All, not some. 

Not the manageable ones. All the ones that keep you awake. The ones you hide from others. The ones you've named and the ones you don't understand yet. 

  Fear is sneaky. It can disguise itself as control, perfectionism, or overthinking.

  But Psalm 34 exposes fear for what it is, a thief of peace. And God's response, deliverance. 

  Remember Peter in the prison in Acts 12, chained between guards, sleeping under the shadow of death. But the church prayed, and an angel came, chains fell, doors opened. 

   Deliverance is not limited by iron or circumstance. It is powered by prayer and God's unstoppable love. 

David goes on in Psalm 34, "Those who look to him are radiant. Their faces are never covered with shame. 

   Deliverance doesn't just rescue you, it restores your joy, your identity, your dignity." 

So today, if you're trapped in fear, whether it's fear of the future, of failure, of being alone, seek the Lord. Not once, not perfectly, just honestly. He will answer and he will deliver. This next verse shifts us into renewal. Psalm 51:10. Create in me a pure heart, oh God, and renew a steadfast spirit within   me. 

  This psalm is David at his most broken and his most beautiful. After being confronted by the prophet Nathan for his sin with Bathsheba, David didn't run. He didn't deny. He fell to his knees and penned one of the most vulnerable prayers in scripture. This is not a psalm of surface repentance. This is the sound of a soul unraveling before a merciful God. And in that unraveling, there is incredible power. Create in me. 

David doesn't ask for an upgrade. He asks for a miracle. The word create is the same Hebrew word used in Genesis 1. 

David is saying, "God, I need a brand new beginning, a fresh heart, a re-creation." 

  So many of us walk around with silent shame. We smile, serve, lead, but carry guilt like a second skin. 

  Psalm 51 gives us language to lay it all down, to stop performing, to ask God not just for forgiveness, but for renewal. 

   David also prays, "Restore to me the joy of your salvation." Sin doesn't just break God's law. It breaks our joy. It 

You Don't Lack Power, You Lack the Revelation of What You Carry

🗣️  I KNOW WHAT I CARRY  if this teaching landed in your spirit today. You are not waiting for power to arrive- it is already inside you. You are not a beggar at the gate.

 You have never lacked power. Not for a single day since the moment you were born again. Not in your weakest moment. 

 Not in your darkest hour. Not when the circumstances seemed immovable and heaven felt distant. Not when the enemy pressed hardest and your strength felt  thinnest. 

  You have never, not once, been without power. And yet most believers live as though power is something they are still waiting to receive, something they must earn through enough prayer, enough fasting, enough consecration, enough spiritual striving. 

  They approach God as though the supply line is somewhere in the future. As though the day will finally come when they are equipped enough, consecrated enough, worthy enough for the power to arrive. 

 And while they wait, the enemy advances in territories he has no legal right to occupy. While they petition heaven for what heaven already released, darkness operates freely in their bodies, their finances, their minds, their families.

   While they beg for the very thing already living inside them, they remain powerless. Not because power was withheld, but because revelation was never received. 

  This is the crisis of the modern church. Not a power shortage, but a revelation shortage.

     I remember sitting with a pastor once, a man who had been in ministry for over 20 years. He had built a congregation from nothing. He had seen God move. He had prayed for the sick and watched people recover. And yet he sat across from me in genuine confusion and said, "I feel like I am running on empty. like whatever power I had at the beginning has been slowly draining away and I do not know how to get it back. And as he talked, I realized the problem immediately. He did not understand what he was carrying. He thought power was something that came and went, something that rose and fell depending on his spiritual state, something that had to be maintained through religious performance. He had 20 years of ministry experience and almost no revelation of what actually lived inside him. That is the condition we identified in new creation realities with a precision I have never seen matched anywhere else. 

¶Note:  The greatest tragedy in the body of Christ is not that believers lack what they need. It is that they do not know what they already have. They are spiritual billionaires living like beggars. They are heirs of God's kingdom standing at the gates of their own inheritance asking to be let in. They have the answer living inside them and are still searching for it on the outside. 

  And this is not a peripheral problem. This is the central problem because everything in the Christian life flows from revelation. 

  Every bold declaration, every healing enforced, every enemy resisted, every mountain that moves, all of it is rooted in what you know about what you carry. 

  So the question is not whether God has equipped you. He has. The question is whether you have seen it, whether revelation has moved what is true in scripture from information in your mind into living  reality in your spirit. 

    Because there is a vast distance between knowing something and truly knowing it. There is a distance between reading that Christ lives in you and actually living from that reality. 

   There is a distance between reading Ephesians chapter 1 and walking in the consciousness of what Ephesians chapter 1 declares about you. 

     And most believers spend their entire Christian life on the wrong side of that distance. 

    Second Peter 1:3. according as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of HIM that hath called us to glory and virtue. 

    All things, not some things, not the things you have prayed long enough for, not the things reserved for the especially consecrated. 

  AlI things pertaining to life and godliness have  already been given. Past tense, completed transaction. 

   The supply is not coming. It is already in the account. 

  But notice the phrase governing the entire verse. 

   Through the knowledge of HIM, not through the striving for HIM. Not through the performance before HIM. 

   Through the knowledge of him, revelation. Seeing HIM clearly enough that what he has done becomes real to you. Because the moment you truly see what has already been given, you stop asking for it and start using it. 

  The moment revelation arrives, the posture of the believer shifts entirely. 

   You are no longer at the gate asking permission    to enter. You are already inside moving in the authority of the One who purchased your access. 

    Today we are going to show you exactly what you are carrying, why most believers never see it, and what happens the moment revelation finally lands. 

    Starting with the most important prayer in the New Testament and what it tells us about why most believers are still waiting for what they already possess. 

Apostle Paul understood this problem with stunning precision. He did not write the church at Ephesus to introduce them to new doctrine. He wrote to them because they were already saved, already filled with the spirit, already in Christ, and still not walking in the fullness of what they possessed. This is what makes Ephesians one of the most revealing prayers in all of scripture. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that ye may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. 

Notice what brother Paul is praying for. He is not praying for them to receive more. He is not asking God to dispatch additional resources from heaven. He is not interceding for a fresh outpouring or a new wave of the spirit. He is praying for them to see what they already have.

   Eyes of understanding enlightened, not new resources deposited, not additional blessings dispatched. The opening of the eyes of the inner man so that what is already theirs becomes visible to them. 

   Brother Paul is praying that they would see their inheritance, not that they would be given one. They already have one. The entire prayer is about perception, not provision. This is where the church has missed it generation after generation. 

  We have turned a revelation problem into a resource problem. We have assumed that the reason believers do not walk in power is that God has not yet given them enough. So we pray for more. We fast for more. We cry out for more. And heaven  responds the way a father responds to a child asking for something already placed in their hands. Not with judgment, but with a quiet redirection. 

   Open your eyes. It is already there. The word know in Ephesians 1:8 is the Greek word ido. It means to see, to perceive, to have full and complete vision of something. Brother Paul is not praying that they would accumulate more theological information. 

  He is praying for experiential sight. The kind of knowing that changes how you walk. The kind of knowing that makes you dangerous to the kingdom of darkness. 

  Because you are no longer operating from assumption. You are operating from revelation. 

  And what is brothe Paul praying they would see? He tells us exactly in verse 19. And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us ward who believe? 

   Power already directed toward believers, already flowing toward those who believe, not coming, already present to us, ward, in your direction, already oriented toward you, already engaged in your life, already active in your situation. 

   But here is where this passage goes somewhere most teachers never take it. 

Apostle Paul does not simply say power. He uses four distinct Greek words in verses 19 and 20 to describe it. 

  Dunamis, inherent ability, explosive force. 

   Eneria, active working energy, not potential but actual. 

 Kattos, dominion, ruling strength. 

  Issues, might that overcomes resistance.

 Four words.  Because no single word contains the magnitude of what God has directed toward the believer. Brother Paul is saying there is a concentration of divine force operating in your direction that human vocabulary cannot fully express. 

   And then verse 20 sets the standard for this power, which HE wrought in Christ when HE raised him, Jesus Christ from the dead. Not a healing, not a miracle, not a deliverance. The standard saint Paul sets for the power operating toward you is the resurrection of Christ from the dead. 

  The same force that pulled a dead body out of a sealed tomb and transformed it into a glorified resurrection body. That is the power, he says is already directed toward you. Not as a theological statement you mentally agree with, but as a living reality you operate from daily. 

    Now consider what this means for the way most Christians actually live. 

    They wake up carrying resurrection power and ask God for strength to get through the day. 

    They face a doctor's report contradicting the Word of God and instead of standing in the power that already conquered death, they beg heaven to do something. 

   They walk into spiritual conflict with the full backing of the same force that harrowed hell and rose on the third day and they tremble with fear. 

  Not because the power is insufficient, but because the revelation is absent. 

¶ Note:  In new creation realities that the believer who does not know what he carries is like a soldier entering battle without knowing he has a weapon. The weapon is in him, but because he has never been shown it, he fights with his bare hands and wonders why the enemy is not retreating. The enemy is not retreating because the enemy knows something the believer does not. The enemy knows what is inside you. And his primary strategy, his most consistent, most relentless, most effective strategy is to make absolutely certain you never find out. 

  So if the enemy cannot remove the power inside you, what exactly is his strategy? Because he is not passive. He is not waiting to see what you will  discover. He is actively, consistently, and aggressively working to ensure that you never see what you carry. 

  And understanding how he does that is one of the most practically important things a believer can grasp. His strategy is not complicated. It is not sophisticated. It does not require extraordinary demonic intelligence. It requires only one thing. Keeping you religious about your power instead of revelatory about it. 

   There is a version of Christianity that talks about the power of God constantly without ever actually walking in it. It sings about it. It preaches about it. 

   And yet the believers inside that version remain weak, fearful, and defeated. Not because the power is absent, but because the revelation never arrived.

   They know the vocabulary. They do not know the reality. And this is precisely the environment the enemy works hardest to maintain. Not overt unbelief, not open rebellion, just religious familiarity where you have heard about the power so many times that you have stopped expecting to actually experience it. 

  I think about the believers I have  encountered who could quote Ephesians 1 :19 perfectly and yet were living in absolute defeat. {and His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength}.  Not because they rejected the verse, it is because they had memorized it without ever receiving it. 

   Information without revelation produces no results in the physical realm. 

¶Note:  In new creation realities that a human can be born again, spirit filled, and doctrinally sound, and stilI live his entire life below the reality of what he possesses simply because he has confused knowing about a truth with knowing the truth itself. 

   And this is where second Peter 1:3 becomes critical. According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of HIM that hath called us to glory and virtue. 

 The word knowledge there is epignosis, full precise complete knowledge, not casual acquaintance, not information received and stored. The kind of knowing that moves from the head into the spirit and produces a change in how you live. 

   This is the revelation-knowledge through which all things are given. Not head knowledge, but epignosis. And this is the knowledge the enemy fights hardest to prevent because he knows even if you do not, that the moment epignosis arrives, his occupation of territory in your life is over. The moment you stop knowing about the power and start knowing the power, the game changes entirely. 

   Now I want to bring this to Ephesians 1 with even more precision. Verse 21 says, "Christ was raised far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. far above all principality, far above all power, far above all might and  dominion and every name. 

   And then Ephesians 2:6 says, "And hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Raised us up together in the same position, at the same elevation, far above every principality and every demonic name that operates against your life." 

   That is not a future promise. That is a present legal reality. 

   You are not below the enemy fighting upward. You are above the enemy enforcing downward. 

And the moment that revelation lands, the moment you stop seeing yourself as someone being attacked from above and start seeing yourself as someone with legal authority over everything beneath, everything changes. 

¶This is what we described as the new creation reality.

   The believer is not a rehabilitated sinner barely hanging on. The believer is a new species of being created in Christ Jesus, seated in heavenly places, filled with the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, carrying authority,  purchased at Calvary.

   Romans 8 11. But if the spirit of HIM that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead dwelleth in you, He that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that dwelleth in you. 

Dwelleth permanent residence. 

     The same SPIRIT that raised a dead body from a sealed tomb is permanently resident in your recreated human spirit right now. That is what the enemy does not want you to know. 

That is the revelation he has fought for generations to keep from landing in the spirit of the believer.

 Because a believer who knows this is not manageable. A believer who knows this is not afraid of a diagnosis. Not paralyzed by a financial crisis, not intimidated by a spiritual attack, not defeated by circumstances that have no legal authority over a new creation seated in heavenly places. 

    A believer who knows this knows what he carries. And everything changes the moment you do. 

    Now, here's where this truth moves from the theological into the absolutely practical. Because revelation is not the destination, it is the beginning.

   The moment epicnosis lands, the moment you truly see what you carry, a responsibility comes with it. A responsibility that most believers never fully embrace. 

    Revelation must move from your eyes to your mouth  🗣️, from your spirit to your declaration 🗣️, from what you know internally to what you enforce 🗣️ externally. 

   This is the transition point where most believers stall. They receive the revelation. It lands in their spirit. They feel the weight of it. They know it is true. And then nothing changes. They go back to the same prayer posture, the same defeated confession, the same way of talking about their circumstances, the same way of approaching God as though he has not yet acted on their behalf. 

   And James 1:22 identifies exactly why. But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves, hearers only. Speak 🗣️ the Word.

 The word deceiveth them, not because they reject it, is because they receive it mentally without ever activating it practically. 

They know about the power. 

 They agree with the power. 

They can explain the power. 

But they have never spoken from the power. And unspoken revelation produces no results in the  physical realm.

 ¶ Note:  In new creation realities ,  the new creation was never designed to be passive. It was designed to be vocal, bold, speaking 🗣️ the realities of redemption into the atmosphere with the confidence of someone who knows exactly what they carry. 

  Romans 10:10. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth 👄 confession 🗣️ is made, with the heart 🫀 and with the mouth 👄, not one without the other. 

  Belief in the spirit and confession with the lips, working together as the complete instrument through which the legal realities of redemption become active in the physical realm.

  Proverbs 18 21. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. 

Not in the power of your belief system alone, not in the power of your prayer journal, in the tongue, in the spoken word. 

 Because God's Word does not enforce itself silently. It enforces itself vocally. 🗣️ 

  Hebrews 11:3.  Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, spoken, declared, released into the atmosphere. 

   The same principle governs the life of the believer. The power inside you is released through the word  you speak. 

  This is why Psalm 103:20 says, "Angels hearken unto the voice of his word, not the thought of his word, not the feeling of his word, but the voice." Angels respond to spoken declaration.

   Power is transmitted through the believer's mouth. And this is precisely why the enemy fights your confession harder than he fights anything else in your life. 

  He knows that the moment you begin to speak out  🗣️ what you carry, the atmosphere shifts. The moment you open your mouth in alignment with what God has said about you, forces are set in motion that darkness cannot stop. We speak what GOD SPOKE. 

   Picture a river dam holding back an enormous reservoir of water. The water is there, but nothing flows until the gate is opened. Your mouth is the gate. Your declaration is the opening. And the power that has been yours since the day you were born again, all of it waits for the gate to open. It waits for the believer to stop being silent and start being vocal. 🗣️ 

 Romans 12:2. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. The Greek word metamorphu. The same word used for the transfiguration of Jesus. Not gradual improvement. a complete change of form driven by a change of sight. 

  The renewed mind is the mind that sees what the spirit already knows. The spirit of the born again believer already knows it is righteous. 

 The renewed mind agrees. The spirit already knows it is healed. 

The renewed  mind agrees. The spirit already knows it carries the fullness of Christ. 

  The renewed mind agrees. And when the mind and the spirit come into alignment around what scripture declares, the   believer stops living from the outside in and begins living from the inside out. 

  This is not positive thinking. This is not the power of human optimism. This is covenant law. God spoke and worlds came into existence. He has now placed His Word in your mouth and His SPIRIT in your spirit. And he is waiting not  passively but expectantly for you to speak 🗣️ what HE has spoken. For you to declare what he has declared, for you to enforce what the cross already accomplished. 

  Because when you do, something happens that no natural force can explain and no spiritual enemy can resist. The believer who speaks from revelation is not the same as one who 21:14 spoke from habit. Not because they got louder, but because the sword has been drawn from the mouth of someone who knows what they carry. Not striving, not begging, but speaking, declaring, enforcing. 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 

 So, let me bring everything together with something I want to leave sitting in your spirit long after this teaching is over. You do not lack power. You have never lacked power. Not for a single day, not in a single moment, not in your weakest hour or your darkest season or your most impossible situation. What you have lacked is the revelation of what you carry. And that revelation, that epicnosis is available to you right now, today. Not after more fasting, not after more consecration, not after you have cleaned yourself up enough to deserve it. Right now, because 2 Peter 1:3 already declared it. All things pertaining to life and godliness have already been given through the knowledge of HIM. The supply is not coming. It is already in the account.

   Now I want to give you something practical to walk away with today because revelation without application stays in the realm of information and we have already established that information without declaration produces no results in the physical realm. 

  Here is what this looks like, every single morning before your feet hit the floor, before the phone goes on, before the news, before the demands, before sense knowledge gets the first word. You open your mouth and you declare what you carry. 

You say, 🗣️ : "I am a new creation in Christ Jesus. Old things have passed away. All things have become new. The same SPIRIT that raised Jesus Christ from the dead dwells in me. Greater is HE that is in me than he that is in the world. I am seated in heavenly places.  Far above all principality, all power, all might, all dominion. I carry resurrection power. I carry covenant authority. I carry the legal standing of a son ( daughter ) of God before the throne of heaven. "

  And then you speak to whatever Red Sea is in front of you. Whatever mountain is in ñjjjj way. Whatever report contradicts the word of God over your life, you speak to it with the calm, settled authority of someone who knows what they carry. This is what Kenyon called living from the inside out. Not letting circumstances determine your confession, letting your revelation determine your circumstances. I remember the pastor I told you about at the beginning of this teaching, the man with 20 years of ministry and no revelation of what lived inside him. We spent several hours together over a few days going through exactly what we have covered in this teaching. And I watched something happen in him that I have seen  happen in believers many times over the years. 

  The moment revelation landed, I mean truly landed, not just mentally registered. 

His entire posture changed.  He sat up differently. His voice changed. His eyes changed. He went from describing his emptiness to declaring his fullness.

 Not because his circumstances had changed, it is because he had finally seen what he was carrying. 

  He called me about 6 weeks later. He said, "I do not know how to explain what has happened, but I have not felt empty once since that day. Not once. I wake up and I declare what the Word says about me, and something in me responds to it like a well that never runs dry. "

That is epicosis at work. That is revelation that has moved from the head into the spirit. That is a believer who finally knows what he carries." 

   Ephesians 3:20. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that workketh in us. According to the power that workketh in us. 

  Not the power dispatched from heaven. 

Not the power available in theory. 

The power that work. Present tense, active tense in us, right now, in you, already working, already active, already more than sufficient for every mountain, every sickness, every assignment of darkness, every impossible situation you will ever face. 

  The only thing standing between where you are and where God has placed you is not more power. It is the sight to see what you already carry and the mouth 👄 🗣️ to declare it. 

  Once you see it, once the revelation truly lands, you will never again approach your life as someone waiting for God to move. You will approach it as someone through whom God is already moving. You will never again beg heaven for what heaven already placed inside you. You will draw from it, speak from it, walk from it, and the world around you, seen and unseen, will  respond to the power of a believer who finally knows what he carries.

 Confessing 🗣️ : I know what I carry in right now. 

Not as a casual response,  but as a declaration over your own life that the revelation has landed. 

  That from this day forward, you are no longer a spiritual billionaire living like a beggar. You are a new creation seated in heavenly places filled with resurrection power speaking from revelation enforcing the finished work of the cross of Jesus Christ in every area of your life. You do not lack power. You never have. Now you know what you carry. Go and use it. To the glory of our Father God in heaven, forever and ever. So be it. 

To Count for Jesus

 To Count for Jesus:

All want their lives to count for something

To leave their mark when life is through

But vain pursuits will count as nothing

Time will erase whate’er we do.

Chorus:

I want my life to count for Jesus

For earthly things will quickly fade

No need to add to worldy riches

I only seek eternal gain.

Inside my heart there burns a question,

What was I placed on earth here for?

It truly was to build a kingdom,

Not of my own but of the Lord’s.

( Chorus )

I want my life to count for Jesus

For earthly things will quickly fade

No need to add to worldy riches

I only seek eternal gain.

Malay:  Untuk Berharga bagi Yesus:

Semua orang mahu hidup mereka berharga

Untuk meninggalkan kesan apabila hidup berakhir

Tetapi usaha yang sia-sia tidak akan bermakna apa-apa

Masa akan memadamkan apa sahaja yang kita lakukan.

Korus:

Aku mahu hidupku berharga bagi Yesus

Kerana perkara duniawi akan cepat pudar

Tidak perlu menambah kekayaan duniawi

Aku hanya mencari keuntungan abadi.

Di dalam hatiku ada persoalan yang menyala,

Untuk apa aku ditempatkan di bumi ini?

Ia benar-benar untuk membina sebuah kerajaan,

Bukan milikku sendiri tetapi milik Tuhan.

(Korus)

Aku mahu hidupku berharga bagi Yesus

Kerana perkara duniawi akan cepat pudar

Tidak perlu menambah kekayaan duniawi

Aku hanya mencari keuntungan abadi.

 Chinese Simplified: 为耶稣而活：

人人都渴望生命有意义

在生命终结时留下印记

但虚妄的追求毫无意义

时间会抹去我们所做的一切。

副歌：

我愿我的人生为耶稣而活

因为世间万物转瞬即逝

无需追求世俗的财富

我只寻求永恒的益处。

我心中燃烧着一个疑问，

我来到世上的目的是什么？

的确是为了建立一个国度，

不是我自己的国度，而是主的国度。

（副歌）

我愿我的人生为耶稣而活

因为世间万物转瞬即逝

无需追求世俗的财富

我只寻求永恒的益处。

Tamil: இயேசுவுக்காகப் பயன்பட:

அனைவரும் தங்கள் வாழ்க்கை ஏதேனும் ஒரு வகையில் பயன்பட வேண்டும் என விரும்புகிறார்கள்

வாழ்க்கை முடிந்த பிறகும் தங்கள் முத்திரையைப் பதிக்க

ஆனால் வீணான முயற்சிகள் எதற்கும் உதவாது

நாம் செய்வதையெல்லாம் காலம் அழித்துவிடும்.

பல்லவி:

என் வாழ்க்கை இயேசுவுக்காகப் பயன்பட வேண்டும் என நான் விரும்புகிறேன்

ஏனெனில் உலகப் பொருட்கள் விரைவில் மறைந்துவிடும்

உலகச் செல்வங்களைச் சேர்க்க வேண்டிய அவசியமில்லை

நான் நித்திய ஆதாயத்தை மட்டுமே நாடுகிறேன்.

என் இதயத்தில் ஒரு கேள்வி எரிகிறது,

நான் எதற்காக இந்தப் பூமியில் வைக்கப்பட்டேன்?

அது உண்மையிலேயே ஒரு ராஜ்யத்தைக் கட்டுவதற்காகத்தான்,

என்னுடையதல்ல, கர்த்தருடையது.

(பல்லவி)

என் வாழ்க்கை இயேசுவுக்காகப் பயன்பட வேண்டும் என நான் விரும்புகிறேன்

ஏனெனில் உலகப் பொருட்கள் விரைவில் மறைந்துவிடும்

உலகச் செல்வங்களைச் சேர்க்க வேண்டிய அவசியமில்லை

நான் நித்திய ஆதாயத்தை மட்டுமே நாடுகிறேன்.

French : Pour Jésus :

Tous veulent que leur vie ait un sens

Laisser leur empreinte après leur mort

Mais les vaines poursuites ne comptent pour rien

Le temps effacera tout ce que nous faisons.

Refrain :

Je veux que ma vie compte pour Jésus

Car les choses terrestres s'estompent rapidement

Inutile d'accumuler des richesses terrestres

Je ne recherche que le salut éternel.

Au fond de mon cœur brûle une question :

Pourquoi ai-je été placé sur terre ?

C'était véritablement pour bâtir un royaume,

Non pas le mien, mais celui du Seigneur.

(Refrain)

Je veux que ma vie compte pour Jésus

Car les choses terrestres s'estompent rapidement

Inutile d'accumuler des richesses terrestres

Je ne recherche que le salut éternel.

Keep Financial Wisdom

KEEP FINANCIAL WISDOM 

 1. Learn a high-income skill.

2. Create multiple income stream.

3. Avoid lifestyle creep.

4. Cut unnecessary expenses.

5. Marry the right person.

6. Pay off high-interest debt.

7. Network with high achievers.

8. Learn the art of negotiating.

9. Be patient and think long-term.

10. Invest ten percent of your income.

11. Understand strategic tax planning.

12. Make tracking your expenses a habit.

13. Avoid falling for "get rich quick" schemes.

14. Avoid putting all your saving in one basket.

15. Make saving money a non-negotiable routine.

16. Learn to distinguish between needs and wants.

17. Never underestimate the value of small savings.

18. Avoid spending money on things to impress others.

➡️ If you agree, confess this verse daily, regardless of the situation you are in , And my God shall supply all my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. So be it. 

保持理财智慧

1. 学习一项高收入技能。

2. 创造多元化的收入来源。

3. 避免生活方式膨胀。

4. 削减不必要的开支。

5. 找到合适的伴侣。

6. 还清高息债务。

7. 与成功人士建立联系。

8. 学习谈判技巧。

9. 保持耐心，着眼长远。

10. 将收入的百分之十用于投资。

11. 了解战略性税务规划。

12. 养成记录开支的习惯。

13. 避免落入“快速致富”的陷阱。

14. 避免将所有积蓄都放在一个账户里。

15. 将储蓄变成一项不可动摇的习惯。

16. 学会区分必需品和想要的东西。

 17. 永远不要低估小额储蓄的价值。

18. 避免为了炫耀而花钱。

➡️ 如果你同意，请每天默念这节经文，无论你身处何种境地：“我的神必照他荣耀的丰富，在基督耶稣里，使我一切所需用的都充足。愿这事成就。”

(French) GÉRER SA SAGESSE FINANCIÈRE

1. Acquérir une compétence lucrative.

2. Diversifier ses sources de revenus.

3. Maîtriser son train de vie.

4. Réduire les dépenses superflues.

5. Épouser la bonne personne.

6. Rembourser ses dettes à taux d'intérêt élevé.

7. Entourer son réseau de personnes performantes.

8. Maîtriser l'art de la négociation.

9. Être patient et penser à long terme.

10. Investir 10 % de ses revenus.

11. Comprendre les principes d'une planification fiscale stratégique.

12. Prendre l'habitude de suivre ses dépenses.

13. Se méfier des promesses de gains rapides.

14. Diversifier ses économies.

15. Faire de l'épargne une habitude incontournable.

16. Apprendre à distinguer ses besoins de ses envies.

17. Ne jamais sous-estimer la valeur des petites économies. 

18. Évitez de dépenser de l'argent pour impressionner les autres.

➡️ Si vous êtes d'accord, confessez ce verset chaque jour, quelle que soit votre situation : « Et mon Dieu pourvoira à tous mes besoins selon sa richesse, avec gloire, en Jésus-Christ. Qu'il en soit ainsi. »

(Spanish): CULTIVANDO LA SABIDURÍA FINANCIERA

1. Aprende una habilidad que te genere altos ingresos.

2. Crea múltiples fuentes de ingresos.

3. Evita aumentar tus gastos de forma descontrolada.

4. Recorta los gastos innecesarios.

5. Cásate con la persona adecuada.

6. Paga tus deudas con intereses altos.

7. Rodéate de personas exitosas.

8. Aprende el arte de la negociación.

9. Sé paciente y piensa a largo plazo.

10. Invierte el diez por ciento de tus ingresos.

11. Comprende la planificación fiscal estratégica.

12. Haz del seguimiento de tus gastos un hábito.

13. Evita caer en esquemas para hacerse rico rápidamente.

14. Evita poner todos tus ahorros en una sola canasta.

15. Haz del ahorro una rutina innegociable.

16. Aprende a distinguir entre necesidades y deseos.

 17. Nunca subestimes el valor de los pequeños ahorros.

18. Evita gastar dinero en cosas para impresionar a los demás.

➡️ Si estás de acuerdo, confiesa este versículo diariamente, sin importar la situación en la que te encuentres: «Y mi Dios suplirá todo lo que me falta conforme a sus riquezas en gloria en Cristo Jesús. Así sea».

(German): Finanzielle Weisheit bewahren

1. Erlernen Sie eine Fähigkeit, mit der Sie gut verdienen können.

2. Schaffen Sie sich mehrere Einkommensquellen.

3. Vermeiden Sie es, Ihren Lebensstandard zu erhöhen.

4. Reduzieren Sie unnötige Ausgaben.

5. Heiraten Sie den richtigen Partner.

6. Tilgen Sie hochverzinsliche Schulden.

7. Vernetzen Sie sich mit erfolgreichen Menschen.

8. Lernen Sie die Kunst des Verhandelns.

9. Seien Sie geduldig und denken Sie langfristig.

10. Investieren Sie zehn Prozent Ihres Einkommens.

11. Verstehen Sie die Grundlagen der Steuerplanung.

12. Machen Sie es sich zur Gewohnheit, Ihre Ausgaben zu erfassen.

13. Fallen Sie nicht auf unseriöse Angebote herein, die schnellen Reichtum versprechen.

14. Investieren Sie nicht alles auf eine Karte.

15. Machen Sie Sparen zu einer festen Routine.

16. Lernen Sie, zwischen Bedürfnissen und Wünschen zu unterscheiden.

 17. Unterschätze niemals den Wert kleiner Ersparnisse.

18. Gib kein Geld für Dinge aus, um andere zu beeindrucken.

➡️ Wenn du zustimmst, bekenne diesen Vers täglich, unabhängig von deiner Situation: „Mein Gott aber wird mir nach seinem Reichtum in Herrlichkeit alles geben, was ich brauche, durch Christus Jesus. So sei es.“

(Italian) : CONSERVARE LA SAGGEZZA FINANZIARIA

1. Impara un'abilità redditizia.

2. Crea più fonti di reddito.

3. Evita di aumentare indebitamente le spese.

4. Riduci le spese superflue.

5. Sposa la persona giusta.

6. Estingui i debiti con interessi elevati.

7. Crea una rete di contatti con persone di successo.

8. Impara l'arte della negoziazione.

9. Sii paziente e pensa a lungo termine.

10. Investi il dieci percento del tuo reddito.

11. Comprendi la pianificazione fiscale strategica.

12. Fai del monitoraggio delle tue spese un'abitudine.

13. Evita di cadere nella trappola dei sistemi per arricchirsi velocemente.

14. Evita di mettere tutti i tuoi risparmi in un unico posto.

15. Fai del risparmio una routine irrinunciabile.

16. Impara a distinguere tra bisogni e desideri.

 17. Non sottovalutare mai l'importanza dei piccoli risparmi.

18. Evita di spendere soldi per impressionare gli altri.

➡️ Se sei d'accordo, recita quotidianamente questo versetto, a prescindere dalla situazione in cui ti trovi: "Il mio Dio provvederà a ogni mio bisogno secondo le sue ricchezze in gloria in Cristo Gesù. Così sia."

( Korean ): 재정적 지혜를 유지하세요

1. 고소득 기술을 배우세요.

2. 다양한 수입원을 만드세요.

3. 생활 수준이 지나치게 높아지지 않도록 하세요.

4. 불필요한 지출을 줄이세요.

5. 좋은 배우자를 만나세요.

6. 고금리 부채를 상환하세요.

7. 성공한 사람들과 교류하세요.

8. 협상 기술을 배우세요.

9. 인내심을 갖고 장기적인 안목을 가지세요.

10. 소득의 10%를 투자하세요.

11. 전략적인 세금 계획을 이해하세요.

12. 지출 내역을 기록하는 습관을 들이세요.

13. "벼락부자"가 되는 방법을 속지 마세요.

14. 모든 저축을 한 곳에 몰아 넣지 마세요.

15. 저축을 필수적인 습관으로 만드세요.

16. 필요와 욕구를 구분하는 법을 배우세요.

 17. 작은 저축의 가치를 절대 과소평가하지 마십시오.

18. 남에게 잘 보이려고 돈을 낭비하지 마십시오.

➡️ 이 말씀에 동의하신다면, 어떤 상황에 있든지 매일 이 구절을 고백하십시오. "나의 하나님이 그리스도 예수 안에서 그의 영광의 풍성함으로 내 모든 필요를 채워 주시리니, 그렇게 되기를 원하노라."

(Japanese): 賢明な金銭感覚を身につけよう

1. 高収入につながるスキルを身につける。

2. 複数の収入源を確保する。

3. 生活水準の上昇を避ける。

4. 不必要な支出を削減する。

5. 理想の相手と結婚する。

6. 高金利の借金を返済する。

7. 成功者とネットワークを築く。

8. 交渉術を身につける。

9. 忍耐強く、長期的な視点を持つ。

10. 収入の10%を投資する。

11. 戦略的な税務計画を理解する。

12. 支出を記録することを習慣にする。

13. 「一攫千金」を謳う詐欺に騙されない。

14. 貯蓄を一つの投資先に集中させない。

15. 貯蓄を欠かせない習慣にする。

16. 必要不可欠なものと、欲しいものを区別する。

 17. 少額の貯蓄の価値を決して過小評価してはいけません。

18. 他人を感心させるためにお金を使うのは避けましょう。

➡️ もし同意するなら、どんな状況にあっても、毎日この聖句を告白しましょう。「そして、私の神は、キリスト・イエスによって、その栄光の富に応じて、私のあらゆる必要を満たしてくださいます。そうなりますように。」

(Portuguese): MANTENHA A SABEDORIA FINANCEIRA

1.º Aprenda uma competência que gere rendimentos elevados.

2.º Crie múltiplas fontes de rendimento.

3.º Evite o aumento descontrolado do seu estilo de vida.

4.º Corte nas despesas desnecessárias.

5.º Case com a pessoa certa.

6.º Quite dívidas com juros elevados.

7.º Ligue-se com pessoas de sucesso.

8.º Aprenda a arte da negociação.

9.º Seja paciente e pense a longo prazo.

10.º Invista 10% do seu rendimento.

11.º Entenda o planeamento fiscal estratégico.

12.º Crie o hábito de controlar as suas despesas.

13.º Evite cair em golpes de enriquecimento rápido.

14.º Evite colocar todas as suas poupanças num único cesto.

15.º Faça da poupança uma rotina inegociável.

16.º Aprenda a distinguir entre necessidades e desejos.

17.º Nunca subestime o valor de pequenas poupanças.

18.º Evite gastar dinheiro em coisas para impressionar os outros.

➡️ Se concorda, confesse este versículo diariamente, independentemente da situação em que se encontre: "O meu Deus suprirá todas as minhas necessidades, de acordo com as suas riquezas em glória, em Cristo Jesus. Assim seja."

(Hindi): फाइनेंशियल समझदारी बनाए रखें

1. ज़्यादा इनकम वाली कोई स्किल सीखें।

2. इनकम के कई सोर्स बनाएं।

3. लाइफस्टाइल में बदलाव से बचें।

4. फालतू खर्च कम करें।

5. सही इंसान से शादी करें।

6. ज़्यादा इंटरेस्ट वाला कर्ज़ चुकाएं।

7. बड़ी कामयाबी पाने वालों के साथ नेटवर्क बनाएं।

8. मोल-भाव करने की कला सीखें।

9. सब्र रखें और लंबे समय के बारे में सोचें।

10. अपनी इनकम का दस परसेंट इन्वेस्ट करें।

11. स्ट्रेटेजिक टैक्स प्लानिंग समझें।

12. अपने खर्चों पर नज़र रखना आदत बनाएं।

13. "जल्दी अमीर बनने" वाली स्कीमों के चक्कर में न पड़ें।

14. अपनी सारी सेविंग एक ही जगह लगाने से बचें।

15. पैसे बचाने को एक ऐसा रूटीन बनाएं जिस पर कोई मोल-भाव न हो।

16. ज़रूरतों और चाहतों में फर्क करना सीखें।

17. छोटी सेविंग्स की वैल्यू को कभी कम न समझें। 

18. दूसरों को इम्प्रेस करने के लिए चीज़ों पर पैसे खर्च करने से बचें।

➡️ अगर आप सहमत हैं, तो आप जिस भी सिचुएशन में हों, रोज़ इस लाइन को मानें, "और मेरा परमेश्वर अपनी महिमा की दौलत के हिसाब से मसीह यीशु में मेरी हर ज़रूरत पूरी करेगा। ऐसा ही हो।"

(Sinhala): මූල්‍ය ප්‍රඥාව පවත්වා ගන්න

 1. ඉහළ ආදායම් ලබන කුසලතාවක් ඉගෙන ගන්න.

2. බහු ආදායම් ප්‍රවාහයක් නිර්මාණය කරන්න.

3. ජීවන රටාවට රිංගීමෙන් වළකින්න.

4. අනවශ්‍ය වියදම් කපා දමන්න.

5. නිවැරදි පුද්ගලයා සමඟ විවාහ වන්න.

6. ඉහළ පොලී ණය ගෙවන්න.

7. ඉහළ දක්ෂතා ඇති අය සමඟ ජාලය.

8. සාකච්ඡා කිරීමේ කලාව ඉගෙන ගන්න.

9. ඉවසිලිවන්ත වන්න සහ දිගු කාලීනව සිතන්න.

10. ඔබේ ආදායමෙන් සියයට දහයක් ආයෝජනය කරන්න.

11. උපායමාර්ගික බදු සැලසුම්කරණය තේරුම් ගන්න.

12. ඔබේ වියදම් නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීම පුරුද්දක් කර ගන්න.

13. "ඉක්මනින් පොහොසත් වන්න" යෝජනා ක්‍රමවලට හසු වීමෙන් වළකින්න.

14. ඔබේ සියලු ඉතිරිකිරීම් එක කූඩයකට දැමීමෙන් වළකින්න.

15. මුදල් ඉතිරි කිරීම සාකච්ඡා කළ නොහැකි පුරුද්දක් බවට පත් කරන්න.

16. අවශ්‍යතා සහ අවශ්‍යතා අතර වෙනස හඳුනා ගැනීමට ඉගෙන ගන්න.

 17. කුඩා ඉතුරුම් වල වටිනාකම කිසි විටෙකත් අවතක්සේරු නොකරන්න.

18. අන් අයව ආකර්ෂණය කර ගැනීම සඳහා දේවල් සඳහා මුදල් වියදම් කිරීමෙන් වළකින්න.

➡️ ඔබ එකඟ වන්නේ නම්, ඔබ සිටින තත්වය කුමක් වුවත්, මෙම පදය දිනපතා පාපොච්චාරණය කරන්න, "මාගේ දෙවියන් වහන්සේ ක්‍රිස්තුස් ජේසුස් වහන්සේ කරණකොටගෙන තමන්ගේ තේජසින් යුත් ධනයේ ප්‍රකාරයට මාගේ සියලු අවශ්‍යතා සපුරාලනු ඇත. එසේ වේවා."

Ukrainian: ЗБЕРІГАЙТЕ ФІНАНСОВУ МУДРІСТЬ

1. Опануйте навичку, яка забезпечує високий дохід.

2. Створіть кілька джерел доходу.

3. Уникайте нестабільного способу життя.

4. Скоротіть непотрібні витрати.

5. Одружіться з правильною людиною.

6. Погасіть борги з високими відсотками.

7. Спілкуйтеся з людьми, які досягли успіху.

8. Навчіться мистецтву ведення переговорів.

9. Будьте терплячими та думайте довгостроково.

10. Інвестуйте десять відсотків свого доходу.

11. Розумійте стратегічне податкове планування.

12. Зробіть відстеження своїх витрат звичкою.

13. Уникайте схем швидкого збагачення.

14. Уникайте вкладати всі свої заощадження в один кошик.

15. Зробіть заощадження грошей невід'ємною частиною життя.

16. Навчіться розрізняти потреби та бажання.

17. Ніколи не недооцінюйте цінність невеликих заощаджень.

 18. Уникайте витрачання грошей на речі, спрямовані на те, щоб справити враження на інших.

➡️ Якщо ви згодні, щодня сповідуйте цей вірш, незалежно від ситуації, в якій ви знаходитесь: «І Бог мій виповнить усю мою потребу за багатством Своїм у славі у Христі Ісусі. Нехай буде так».

(Filipino):  MAGING KARUNUNGAN SA PANANALAPI 

 1. Matuto ng kasanayan sa mataas na kita.

2. Gumawa ng maraming kita.

3. Iwasan ang pag-usad ng pamumuhay.

4. Bawasan ang mga hindi kinakailangang gastusin.

5. Magpakasal sa tamang tao.

6. Bayaran ang mga utang na may mataas na interes.

7. Makipag-ugnayan sa mga taong may mataas na tagumpay.

8. Matuto ng sining ng pakikipagnegosasyon.

9. Maging matiyaga at mag-isip ng pangmatagalan.

10. Mamuhunan ng sampung porsyento ng iyong kita.

11. Unawain ang estratehikong pagpaplano ng buwis.

12. Gawing ugali ang pagsubaybay sa iyong mga gastusin.

13. Iwasang mahulog sa mga "mabilis na pagyaman" na pamamaraan.

14. Iwasang ilagay ang lahat ng iyong ipon sa isang basket.

15. Gawing hindi mapagkasunduang gawain ang pag-iipon ng pera.

16. Matutong makilala ang pagkakaiba ng mga pangangailangan at kagustuhan.

17. Huwag maliitin ang halaga ng maliliit na ipon.

 18. Iwasan ang paggastos ng pera sa mga bagay na magpapahanga sa iba.

➡️ Kung sumasang-ayon ka, ikumpisal ang talatang ito araw-araw, anuman ang iyong sitwasyon, "At ibibigay ng aking Diyos ang lahat ng aking pangangailangan ayon sa Kanyang kayamanan sa kaluwalhatian kay Cristo Jesus. Nawa'y mangyari ito."