Samuel D
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Advice
Advice
Introduction: I'm really proud of you, son, for your desire to help veterans
It is evident, That you want to help them, By all that you're doing
You spend hours every day, Working on the black dog community
And I know that you envision doing far more than you're doing now
I. Declaration
But that being said
Your current Trajectory i Believe will not lead you
Where you want to go
To start a successful business, you Must be able to immediately
Generate income
In one way or the other
You must be able to generate income
Sufficient
To meet the needs of the business
As well as your Own needs
And that money must come
From the business
Or from some other source
And
Unless you're independently wealthy
In the beginning of the business
Funds aren't available, Strictly through the business
And there are two certainties
The business needs funds to operate
And you need funds to live
Now thankfully
You don't have a lot of Expenses
In your business at this exact moment
But that being said
You do have personal Living expenses
Which everybody has
Every adult
Has housing expenses, To include rent, and utilities
Has food expenses
Has insurance expenses
Has vehicle expenses, To Include gasoline, Upkeep and insurance
Has telephone expenses
Has medical expenses
And currently
You don't have any means To take care of these expenses
And by the way, housing expenses would not be less than $1000 a month
Food expenses would not be less than $500 a month
Insurance expenses would not be less than $200 a month
so
How do you cover these expenses?
well, Ideally, After the business gets off the ground
The business should take care of your expenses, As the CEO
But the business is not off the ground yet
So how do you cover these expenses now?
Housing expenses? You won't be able to live with your parents forever
At some point your parents will die or move away, That is certain
And how do you cover
Your food expenses
Medical expenses
Telephone expenses
How do you cover these expenses, If the Business is not generating the income now?
There's only one way
You have to find a job
And the jobs are there, You just have to find them
In fact
If you just spent A fraction of the time looking for a job
That you spend going LIVE every day
You could find something
For example
There is a factory in Gordonsville
That hires people with records
Springtime will be here soon, And construction crews will need laborers
But
You need a job, To help you cover your living expenses
Without a job, You can't meet your own needs
And as a result, The business will never get off the ground
Or will take many years, Which you do not have
Car
One of your pressing needs is a car, You need a car
You won't always have our car
To drive
As a 29-year-old man, you need a car
But in order to have a car, you need a job
Insurance
And then, Another thing that I am very concerned about
Which could affect me directly
In a very Real way
is vehicle insurance
If my insurer knew
You were driving our car
They would hit the roof
Because the law requires, That drivers of vehicles the insured
So that if you're living in our house, And are driving our car
You must be Cover buyer insurance
And there is a fee for that
And worse still
If you have an accident, Without being covered
They would not cover it
And because you have no money to pay
I would be paying for it for the rest of my life
and Let's face it
I'll be 63 in September
so, I can’t afford a terrible situation like that
So
Beginning now
If you're to drive our car, I have to include you on my insurance
But I can’t afford to add you , to my insurance
so, you'll have to find a way, For me to add you
You'll have to come up with the money
For me to be able to add you to my insurance
Before driving the car again
Because again
All it takes is one accident
And I know this to be true, Because when I was your age
I had an accident with my car, And I didn't have insurance
But I was young enough to recover from it them,
I'm not young enough now
So
You have to get on the ball and find a job
Any kind of job
To help you with your expenses
And
Just to let you know
When the Lord opens the door for me to leave the Area
I will then sell my house, And will purchase another place
Out of this area
So
If the Lord opens the door this year
And by the end of the year, I wouldn't even be living here
And I'm going to have to downsize, Just to be able to afford to live
So
When it comes to your living expenses
You need to get on the ball, And find a job
So that you can survive on your own, at some point
And so that you can help your business get off the ground
And
As I mentioned this morning
This isn't something for you to stress about
Because
You serve a great big God
The Lord Jesus Christ
Who said (Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
So
If you put God first
In your private life
Your church life
And in every other area
Then
All the things that you need
Will be added to you
II. Personal issue
Declaration
and
That brings me
To another issue
Sometime before Christmas
Mom was about to do laundry
She was about to load the dryer
But found your laundry in the dryer
And
When she did
She found a pair of __________________
There
Hasn't been any male Children in our house
that are that age and that size
But they were found in your laundry
And
I just wanted to know
Why they were there
Man-to-man, why were they there?
Who do they belong to?