Lessons from the poor

Lessons from the poor.
“Then I said to myself, "Well, these are just poor people. They don't know any better…”
Jeremiah 5:4(MSG)

Today, I want to share with you some habits of the poor that has kept them poor. If you notice that you have any of these habits, refrain from them and start practicing the opposite from today and you will become rich.

Firstly, I found out that poor people are very stingy people and they do not know that their stinginess will cause them to remain poor. Be generous. Give a certain percentage of your income to help others.

I have also discovered that poor people hardly take risks. Many of the rich men in the world took a calculated risk and they became rich.

Also, I have come to observe that poor people do not read. They do not value knowledge. I remember a time when someone bought a book for about four thousand dollars. When they asked the man who wrote the book why he made it that expensive, he said that he did not want everybody to read it. I came to discover that a poor man does not place value on knowledge. Knowledge is too expensive for the poor.

I have also observed that wealthy people buy messages a lot, but poor people do not buy messages. They prefer to save their money at the expense of receiving information and knowledge that is able to change their financial status.

Poor people are not willing to invest in knowledge; they wait until they can get it for free. That gives the rich an edge over the poor, because the rich are willing to invest in knowledge. So they know what the poor do not know, that is why they are richer. Therefore, make up your mind to invest in knowledge.

Instruction.
List out the habits you have learnt today about the poor in a tabular form, then write down, on the opposite side, the opposite of those habits and begin to practice them.

For further study, read:
Isaiah 27:11, Hosea 4:6, Proverbs 8:10, Proverbs 15:14, Proverbs 24:3-5, 14.

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Invest in knowledge.