The Million Dollar Life
By William M. Self, Sr.
A Good Name
There are two names each one of us
should give special attention to…
Our first name and our last name.
The Bible says that an Elder (a person of respect
in the Church) must
have a good name.
Not only in the church, but outside the church.
A good name among his neighbors,
co-workers and business associates…
A person who has spent more time
earning respect then
money.
The second name is the family name.
Again, The Bible says an Elder
must have his family
in order.
Proverbs 22 says…
“A good name is more
desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is
better than silver or gold.”
While you and I are earning a
living, we are also earning a name.
The same is true about the way we handle our resources.
Who you are is
always more important than what you have.
Proverbs 22 gives us advice on how to get a good name.
Recognize you were created by
God just like everyone else. Verse 2
Avoid danger – don’t make the same mistake twice. Verse 3
Always choose the path of humility – fear the possibility
you may be wrong in some way before God. Verse 4
Guard your soul – the engine of your physical life,
your emotions,
intellect, and will. Verse 5
Train your children how to handle life. Verse 6
Be a lender not a borrower. Verse 7
Be generous and gracious in deed and speech. Verses 9, 11
Don’t be a slacker and make excuses,
get done what needs
to get done. Verse 13
Keep your life pure and receive discipline. Verses 14, 15
Don’t take advantage of the poor
and kiss up to the rich. Verse 16
If someone from your church met the people
who know you what
would they say about you?
When you have a good name,
people will bless you…
And you will feel like a Millionaire.
Scripture Reading
Ephesians
1:18-19 NIV
I pray also
that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know
the hope to which he has called you, the
riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
19 and his
incomparably great power for us who believe.
Proverbs 22 NIV
22 A good
name is more desirable than great riches;
to be
esteemed is better than silver or gold.
2 Rich and
poor have this in common:
The Lord is
the Maker of them all.
3 A prudent
man sees danger and takes refuge,
but the
simple keep going and suffer for it.
4 Humility
and the fear of the Lord
bring wealth
and honor and life.
5 In the
paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares,
but he who
guards his soul stays far from them.
6 Train a
child in the way he should go,
and when he
is old he will not turn from it.
7 The rich
rule over the poor,
and the
borrower is servant to the lender.
8 He who
sows wickedness reaps trouble,
and the rod
of his fury will be destroyed.
9 A generous
man will himself be blessed,
for he
shares his food with the poor.
10 Drive out
the mocker, and out goes strife;
quarrels and
insults are ended.
11 He who
loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious
will have
the king for his friend.
12 The eyes
of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,
but he
frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
13 The
sluggard says, "There is a lion outside!"
or, "I
will be murdered in the streets!"
14 The mouth
of an adulteress is a deep pit;
he who is
under the Lord's wrath will fall into it.
15 Folly is
bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod
of discipline will drive it far from him.
16 He who
oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
and he who
gives gifts to the rich — both come to poverty.
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