Victory! (2012) by Gerry James

  VICTORY!

Monday, June 18, 2012

IS GOD INTERESTED IN ME?

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Why Does God Seem So Distant When I Need Him Most?


 I feel abandoned in my trial.

You're troubled, so you pray. You're distressed, so you cry for God to bring you quick relief. But all you hear in reply is silence

Monday, April 2, 2012

Investing—Follow God’s Directives Not Human Tendencies

Human tendency is to respond to what is happening in the financial markets or news from the media. Good news frequently provides confidence or triggers greed, which tempts us to buy; bad news makes us feel uncomfortable or fearful, which results in a desire to sell. Generally, good news causes the market to go up, and bad news causes the market to go down. Therefore, if you follow the normal human tendency, which is to rely on your emotions in making investment decisions, it means that you will buy high and sell low. This, of course, is the opposite to what you want to do, and it is not consistent with God’s investment principles.

First, our trust should be in God, not in any particular investment or money manager.

Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared. (Proverbs 3:25–26, emphasis added)

Monday, March 19, 2012

Investing—Obtain Biblical Counsel

       

God admonishes us to obtain counsel. Proverbs 12:15 states, “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But a wise man is he who listens to counsel” (nasb), and Proverbs 15:22 states, “Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.”

God recommends that we obtain biblical counsel from a godly investment adviser and God’s Word.

           

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever

Monday, March 12, 2012

Investing—Assess Your Tolerance for Risk, and Invest Accordingly

       

In Ecclesiastes 11:1–6, God recommends the assumption