Pay Yourself First

Here are some of the people you pay and are making them very rich (You are not the only ones who pay them).

1. RJ Reynolds
2. Sam Walton's family
3.  John Stratton (Verizon CEO)
4.  João Mauricio Giffoni de Castro Neves (Do you want a beer?)
5.  Tim Cook
6.  Bill Gates
7.  Warren Buffett.

All you had to do to make those people rich is be one of the millions who smoke through a pack of cigarettes, drink a beer or a coke, or use a smart phone.

How do you make yourself rich?

Pay yourself before paying them!  Be your own CEO!  Save money for yourself that grows!!!

Step one:  Plant a dollar bill in the ground.
Step two:  Water it thouroughly.
Step three:  Buy a lot of Miracle Grow (Get a Fidelity or Vanguard Mutual fund and this could be an added bonus) and pour it on the spot. 
Step four.  Watch is for 7 nights and days so that no one digs it up.
Step five:  When the money tree sprouts, make sure your dog does not eat it.
Step six.  Harvest a crop of $1 bills.  (If you want more plant $100 bills).  Make your you plant seed bills, bills with seeds in them.  Normal bills will never do.  

Or if you do not see yourself as a CEO or a god, tithe 10% or more and pay God first.

You could tithe to your church.
You could tithe to the poor.
You could tithe to both.
You could tithe on the growth.
You could tithe on the net. 
You could add both together and tithe on that.

God's retirement plan blows all the others off the planet!!!!

"And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.  2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.  3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.  4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.  5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.  6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.  7 "The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.  8 The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Deuteronomy 28:1-8  

  16 And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man produced plentifully,  17 and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'  18 And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.  19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.'  20 But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'  21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."  22 And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.  23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.  24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!  25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?  26 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?  27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!  29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.  30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.  31 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.  32 "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.  33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.  34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Luke 12:16-34