Brother Ace was one of the three brothers who invested his large oak tree with brother David to build a fifty-room boarding house. His investment in his brother’s project gave him a monthly stipend.
His property was located next to brother Elijah, who had a billboard on his property, and brother Art had built a gas station that did car repairs and had a car wash. All three brothers’ properties were located next to one another on the busy highway.
Now, what was he going to do with his property to prosper? He had a wife and children. He had a job working at a convenience store where he ordered the supplies for the store, kept accountability of the inventory, stocked the shelves, and paid the various vendors.
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part of his day was his interaction with the customers, which the store owner told him to keep to a minimum.
He continued to think about finding a career he loved because his place of employment made him sad. He was not able to socialize with the customers the way he wanted to. His boss was very mean, racist and prejudiced against certain customers. His boss resented minorities.
Brother Ace began to observe the prosperity of his brothers.
Brothers Arthur, David, Elijah, and Art had prospered from their inheritance of one acre of land.
All ten of the brothers had received the same inheritance from their father’s will. However, through different choices, decisions, visions, and goals, some of his brothers had taken different roads to their prosperity.
Brother Ace wanted to prosper; however, he didn’t know how. One day while he was at work, his boss was screaming at him for a minor mistake, and he began to think how good it would feel to tell his boss to take his job and shove it. However, he was not about to bite the hand that was feeding him a weekly paycheck.
Brother Ace had a plan. He would talk to his brothers Elijah and Art. He would ask them what they felt he could do to prosper. Ace had common sense to talk to someone who already achieved what he wanted to achieve—prosperity.
Brothers Elijah and Arthur informed Ace to read the letter that their father had left in his will. They informed him that each reader of the letter received a different message. The letter spoke to each brother differently; therefore, each brother was responsible for reading the letter for themselves that their father had left in his
will.
Once he read the letter, he was to report to brothers Elijah and Art, then tell them what he had learned or the message he received from the letter.
Brother Ace read his father’s letter left in his will. He began to focus on the following in the letter:
1. Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, then all things will be added unto you. 2. Money answereth all things. 3. What has thy in thine house?
Brother Ace received his revelation (revelation means “to reveal to you”) from his reading of his father’s letter.
He returned to brothers Elijah and Art, then questioned them about what was revealed to him in the letter.
Brother Elijah and Art explained what “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, then all things will be added unto you” meant.
They explained that to seek is to search for, look for, and work toward. They explained the kingdom of God was the creator, the invisible power that created the universe, the power that created him that is within him and would work for him through him to help him achieve whatever good he desired. They explained the kingdom is referring to God—his will, his guidance. They informed him to give God permission to intervene on his behalf.
He prayed, “Father in heaven, what is your will for my life? I pray your will be done in my life and that what I desire is in agreement with your will for my life.”
Money answereth all things.
Elijah and Art informed Ace that money answers all things, alluding to the point that money means options:
1. Options to go where you want 2. Options to drive what you want 3. Options to live in what you want 4. Options to attend the school you want 5. Options to fly where you want to fly
“Money answereth all things” means the following:
1. You can build your dream with your money. 2. You can help people through your money. 3. You can donate to worthy causes through your money.
“What has thy in thine house?” Elijah and Art explained to him that his “house” was his life, his skills, his education, his knowledge, his ability, his desires, and his passion.
Ace began to assess what he had in his house—his life.
1. He was an outgoing person who loved to meet new people and was never judgmental as to a person’s color, gender, or religion. He truly loved people because they made his day.
2. He loved to order supplies for customers and stock the shelves of a store with pride. He felt he was providing the needs of people through the products he made available to them.
3. He was organized and paid attention to detail.
4. He loved working long hours; work was not work to him. Work is fun when you love what you are doing. You never have to work because you are having fun.
While at work one day, the idea came to him—if he could run a store for someone else, he could run a store for himself.
He could build a store next to his brother’s gas station, which was next to his other brother’s billboard sign.
Brother Ace did the following when he got off work that day:
1. He took action on his idea. 2. He put his idea on paper. 3. He listed what the business was. 4. He listed what the business would sell. 5. He listed how much money it would make. 6. He listed what and who it would take to run it. 7. He listed what it would cost to build and how long it would take to build the store. 8. He listed who and what he needed to make it happen.
One of the items he listed was who and what he needed.
a. He needed brothers number 2, number 3, number 4 and number 5 to help him build the store.
b. He needed a loan from his brothers to buy the materials to build the store and money to stock the store. In return, they would receive a percentage of the profit sale. This was a business investment for the brothers.
He remembered his father had said to him while he was living, “When you pray, whatsoever things you desire, believe that you receive them and you shall have them.”
Ace requested that brothers Art, David, and Elijah would look over his business proposal, and they did. They loaned him the money and helped him build the store.
The store prospered, in that it was on a busy highway next to a gas station and an advertising billboard. The store netted $25,000 a week. Brothers Art, David, Elijah, and Ace received a small stipend each month. Ace repaid his brothers the loan.
Ace prospered from the inheritance he received from his father’s will. He attended a weekly church service and made sure he tithed 10 percent of what he made to the church. He provided money to the poor and charitable organizations and kept his donations secret.
His father taught him that what you do in secret, God reveals you openly.