Pastor Says Receive!!!

 Receive! Receive! Receive! I declare a financial breakthrough this week and the whole congregation shouts a big Amen. An Amen I cannot resonate with or identify with. I stand there lost in thoughts and wonder if they get financial breakthrough. Financial breakthrough has been a strange word to me and of late it's more strange than stranger things... You get it. I often wonder what i usually receive all the Sundays I join my fellow members in shouting Amen, the word, or the miracle. Yet another week of being broke and penniless, should I say poor or broke. I think I prefer the latter as a way of gaslighting myself plus the pastor says being broke is temporary.

We all love this word especially when it is declared on pulpits on Sundays, when books tell you to be positive, and keep the faith your miracle is coming. This in turn pumps up our dopamine levels and we feel excited. Don't get me wrong i am not against pastors or church bear with me. What they don't tell us is that as we receive we should work. That financial breakthrough comes with financial literacy. That my spending or impulse buying will affect my financial breakthrough miracle. It is not their responsibility but yours. That your financial breakthrough comes from cutting your expenditure on what you don't need and saving more.

As i sat on my old toned sofa that evening wondering why I was not manifesting what the pastor was preaching, I remembered the Kshs. 8000 I squandered on an evening outing that was not part of my budget. My mind jogged back to Kshs. 5000 I used on brand new pair of designer heels to add to my closet and encouraged myself that I deserve baby girl treatment. Yes, I was manifesting financial hell broke loose. I was manifesting living a life way above my means; designer clothes and bags, shopping sprees with no savings only living paycheck to paycheck. Yeah, stop, freeze, and rewind.

I was no longer mad at the pastor because his prayers didn't work but mad at myself. I was mad at the poor financial decisions I was making that were costing me a big deal. Mad at my phrases "Pesa itakuja", the "Pesa itakuja" club I am not the only one in this. Well, it is not a bad idea that money will come back, it does but it won't comeback if you don't invest the extra Kshs. 10,000 you bought clothes that you didn't need in a money market fund. FYI, I have decided to sell all my high-end designer heels to open a money market account.

A money market fund is simply a Unit Trust Fund which is managed by a professional fund manager who in turn invest the money put in the fund in different assets which are highly liquid. Meaning the risks of investing are not high and you won't lose your money. It is like a saving account that provides higher interest returns than normal banks. You can use it as an emergency fund, or saving account for a particular project and the money is easy to access. They require low investment hence good to start with. So next time when thinking of a savings account, don't let your money sit in the bank, open a money market account. I don't need the heels anyway.

So on Sunday as the pastor shouts about financial breakthrough, I will shout amen because I'll manifest a fixed income fund trust the following week as an investment. So I say unto you Receive! Receive! Receive!