You Must Fight For Your Future!
"From the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of Heaven has endured violent assault, and violent
men seize it by force [as a precious prize — a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion].”
Matthew 11:12 (Amplified)
by Richard A. Allcorn ©
by Richard A. Allcorn
In applying recently for unemployment, I began filling out the required information to apply. When it got to my last job, it asks the usual questions, but then it asks what I was making. What I was about to experience is “exactly” why I DO NOT like to share my income amounts - with anyone! I was filling out the information and it asked me for my last salary.
I entered my salary. It errored out and reported the following: “Your Normal Wage: Your earnings history indicates that your normal wage should not be more than $716.76 per Week. Please re-enter that or a lower amount and continue to complete your application. If you disagree with this normal wage amount, contact a TWC Tele-Center to discuss the matter following completion of your Internet application.”
Now, my salary was actually $2,500 per week. I had receipts to prove it! I worked a lot of hours per week, so it “did” get paid very well. But TWC refuses to acknowledge WHAT I ACTUALLY MADE !!!! They want me to accept a wage that is almost 25% of my regular salary in this job!!
If I have worked at a job paying less in the past, it’s not because I was worth less, it’s because I needed the job and was willing to take a pay cut. But that doesn’t mean my life is screwed for the rest of my life at that lower rate? I’d still be working at that trucking job, because I loved it there, but we were sued by a company who froze our financial assets. They lost the lawsuit because it was bogus, but they have been dragging their feet in releasing the financial assets, resulting in my driving and unable to get paid, for almost 5 months! If I quit, the company would definitely go under, so I stayed, and hoped!
They’re still dealing with that and I had to leave because I could not afford to go any longer without pay. I am therefore a victim of this, and that is why I was filing for unemployment.
And now, TWC wants to stick a knife in my back and further torture me by making me crawl back into the lower base salary I took at one time, out of desperation! They are trying to forever lock me in at that level of income!
I thought the purpose was to get a job! That’s the whole reason I ended up in the lower paying job before this one. I needed "some income", "any income" at the time. So now, TWC wants to "lock me in" at THAT rate!
These services that are there to help you find work, do NOT have your best interests at heart! In fact, they are Hell-bent on keeping you under-thrumb, and held down, to a meager existence and salary. And if you want to succeed in life, you have to break free from trusting organizations like this one, and spread your wings. It will be hard, and you may have to take risks, but you have only 2 choices:
1. Accept the meager existence and low salary they are trying to force you into, because that’s all they have to offer
2. Step out and make it happen … for yourself! Find your passions, your dreams, your potentials, and push, scrape and fight to get to “that” goal, and succeed, prosper!
I choose #2 …
As for me, I am "tired" of a meager existence.
One person said, "I just want enough to meet my needs." and my thoughts to that are, "How selfish can you be?" I meet people all the time who have needs, people who could break free with just a little financial help. But if I've only got "just enough" for my needs, what example of the kingdom of GOD would I be? My Father paves His streets with "GOLD"! Money is no obstacle for HIM.
So, I choose to be "that example" of those who believe ...
the example of prosperity, abundance, and giving. Half the fun of having "stuff", whether it be a boat, a nice home, or whatever, is sharing it with others, especially those who are hurting financially. But financial prosperity doesn't come easy.
The Bible says that we work, not to meet our needs but "so that we have to give"! I need to get "there"!! I love giving, and I don't want anything throttling that free flow into the kingdom of GOD.
Join with me today in prayer!
Examine your own finances, like I am examining mine.
You should have abundance in your life (finances, money). The BIble says, speaking of Jesus, "He Who was rich, became poor, so that "we" might become rich."
Satan has done an awesome job of convincing us that the Bible was talking about "anything" but finances. But THAT is exactly what the Bible was talking about! Finances! Money!
And, as we all become more profitable, more abundant in our financial resources, our churches and the ministries that are struggling to get provision for those ventures, will have an abundance of "givers" to help! YOU could be one of those. I could be one of those. But only if we "step out" and PUSH to get to the "more-than-enough" level.
“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows. Malachi 3:10
GOD "challenges" us to bring just 1/10th of our income into His House, and then He says we can "test Him" to SEE if He will open the windows of Heaven and pour our blessings way beyond we are able to ask or thing ... blessings that "overflow" ... pour into our midst that are way beyond what we need for ourselves, so that we have give and to share with others in need.
Let's do it!