10.  The financial bondage you’re living under has an expiration date…you decide the date.

  9.  You are where you are because of what you’ve thought…and then done…with those thoughts.

  8.  Failure will never determine who you are or what you’re determined to be unless you make it so.

  7.  If you are jealous or envious of what others have…you will never possess what you covet.

  6.  Eliminate anything or minimize anyone who is creating chaos and confusion in your life.  Ephesians 4:20-24 (MSG)

Here are the Top 5 Rich Thoughts Nuggets of the week.

  5.  When opportunity comes knocking, you still have to get up and answer the door.  Don’t let fear paralyze you…get up and get going.

  4.  You cannot continually think about what was or what could have been if you want to create a new reality of what will be.

  3.  Do you want to receive the Double D Blessing?  DELIGHT in the Lord and He will give you the DESIRES of your heart.  Psalm 37:4

  2.  If you focus on how bad things are…you will attract more of the same.  Speak the Word to things not as they are but as they can be.

And the # 1 Rich Thoughts Nugget you selected is:

  1.  Praying for this to be your greatest week ever…filled with infinite possibilities, unknown opportunities and divine connections.

I was sitting in Creflo Dollar’s Ministers and Leaders Conference listening to Dr. Samuel Chand teach on capacity when I felt stirred to do a word search for capacity.

I was lead to Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 which says:

“After looking at the way things are on this earth, here’s what I’ve decided is the best way to live: Take care of yourself, have a good time, and make the most of whatever job you have for as long as God gives you life. And that’s about it. That’s the human lot. Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what’s given and delighting in the work. It’s God’s gift! God deals out joy in the present, the now. It’s useless to brood over how long we might live.”

As I read, re-read and re-read the verse again. . .I knew God was giving me a powerful revelation even beyond the teaching I was hearing at the moment.

Here are seven insights on what God wants you to experience now.

Seven things for you to do before you go to sleep each night.

First, create a to-do list of the things you plan to accomplish tomorrow.  List them by priorities based on your goals in the six major areas of your life. . .spiritual, family, financial, physical, mental and social.

Be like Santa. . .make your list. . .check it twice.

Second, journal the great things that happened to you during the day.  Regardless of how your day went. . .you have something to rejoice over.  If nothing else and I mean nothing else. . .you have the ability to read and hear the words I’m speaking from my notes.

If stories about the Children of Israel cover over six books in the Bible, how can we ignore the fact that God has a lot He wants to teach us through them?

I Corinthians 10:11 in the New Living Translation says:

“These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.”

The Amplified Bible says it this way:

10.  If you don’t like the harvest you’re reaping…change what you’re sowing.

  9.  God has given us the power to get wealth…not welfare.  Deuteronomy 8:18

  8.  God does not want you living in lack and barely getting by.  After all, He is El-Shaddai not El-Scrooge.

  7.  The most dangerous place for you to live is not in the city with the highest crime rate or unemployment…it’s in your comfort zone.

  6.  If you’ve spent your life making other people rich...isn’t it time you begin to do something for you and the ones you love.

Here are the Top 5 Rich Thoughts Nuggets of the week.

  5.  You can say all the right things…but if you’re still doing wrong things…your life isn’t going to change…until you do.

  4.  Where God leads you…He will feed you.  Isaiah 55:11

  3.  Where God guides you…He provides for you..

  2.  Breakthroughs only occur outside your comfort zone.  It’s time to move.

And the # 1 Rich Thoughts Nugget you selected is:

  1.  Sowing seeds as God directs…takes the limits off your income.

10.  It’s time to stop saying what you don’t have…begin praising God for what you do have...as you anticipate what you’re going to have.

  9.  Share your dreams only with people who can see what you see…meaning things not as they are…but as they can be.

  8.  Your words have consequences.  Your faith is strengthened or weakened by the words you speak.

  7.  Never let what your eyes see determine what your heart believes or your hands find to do.

  6.  Your destiny is not determined by chance but by choice.

Here are the Top 5 Rich Thoughts Nuggets of the week.

  5.  This is a great day to begin your move out of Egypt (lack and insufficiency) and move into the Promised Land (prosperity).  Psalm 118:23-25

  4.  If Jesus didn’t want us to live in victory…then why would He tell us to have dominion?  Genesis 1:26

  3.  The only way to receive a financial miracle is to start where you are with what you’ve got.  Offer it to God and expect increase.

  2.  If you accept where you are in life…that’s where you’ll stay…until you decide you’re tired of things being the way they are.

And the # 1 Rich Thoughts Nugget you selected is:

  1.  The only way to escape what you’re going through is by praising God for what He’s already done in your life.

Wow…I was looking at Ephesians 6:13-18 which describes our spiritual armor when God showed me an amazing parallel in the Message Bible translation.

"Be prepared.  You're up against far more than you can handle on your own. (1) Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it's all over but the shouting you'll still be on your feet. (2) Truth, righteousness, peace, faith and salvation are more than words.  Learn how to apply them.  You'll need them throughout your life. (3) God's Word is an indispensable weapon. (4) In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare.  Pray hard and long.  Pray for your brothers and sisters. (5)  Keep your eyes open. (6)  Keep each other's spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.(7)"

From this powerful scriptural passage God showed me seven facts you should know about your spiritual armour.

10.  Purpose in your heart to do something about your future today.  If you don’t…nobody else will.

  9.  Just because you’re in pain…doesn’t mean you have to be one…to everyone  around you.

  8.  Living your life through the rearview mirror is a reckless way to drive into your future.

  7.  God will never bless what He hasn’t approved.  Exodus 18:18 MSG

  6.  If you accept where you are in life…that’s where you’ll stay…until you decide you’re tired of things being the way they are.

Here are the Top 5 Rich Thoughts Nuggets of the week.

  5.  Don’t be moved by your circumstances…or the appearance of lack…only be moved by thus saith the Word of the Lord.

  4.  The solution to most people’s problems isn’t a lack of money…but rather a lack of ideas…money always follows ideas.  GET ONE.

  3.  The comfort zone of giving what you’ve always given will cause you to miss your opportunity for a mega harvest.

  2.  You must enter your wealthy place mentally and spiritually before you will ever experience it naturally.  Psalm 66:12

And the # 1 Rich Thoughts Nugget you selected is:

  1.  The measure of who you are is not in the life you lead which people see…but rather the life you lead when no one is watching.

My goal is to learn something from everything I read.

As I take notes on what I’ve read...I ask God how to take the thoughts I've written down and make them applicable to my life.

Your mindset is simply a collection of the dominant thoughts in your life.

Proverbs 4:23 in the New Century Version says:

Daniel Boone, the American frontiersman, humorously said he was never lost but he was bewildered once for three days and nights.

If you don’t know where you’re going then you find it’s easier to get lost or sidetracked along the way.

When I began traveling for the ministry. . .I would rent cars that had a GPS (Global Positioning System) in unfamiliar cities.