Cash Flow

The most beautiful thing a man can create in this world is his cash flow and net worth statement.  Every man knows what his say.  Most would say it needs work.  Any man who has way more than he needs on either statement should help other men to get there as well.  There is no such thing as a starving artist.  Or maybe there is.  But the starving artist comes to mind as the juxtaposition of the situation.

I'm reading Thoreau on Walden Pond.  Published in 1854.  My copy was printed in Philadelphia in 1939 by the company that would eventually become the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Oh to be a newspaper man!  To be the gonzo journalist.  To start a newspaper that would grow to see so much circulation and readership that the president himself would we wary of the power that you sway.

Well what am I?  What are you?  Who are we?  All these questions will lead you to confusion until you finally realize that we are children of God who sent his  only begotten son Jesus Christ to die for our sins  so that we might be forgiven and have everlasting life.  Once you look upon the cross like Christian in The Pilgrim's Progress, your burden will fall off of your shoulders and tumble down the steep mountainside into the pits of hell and you will be free and have peace of mind regardless of your cash flow or net worth.

And then you realize you have the rest of your life to spread the gospel and work on your cash flow and net worth.  What better way than to start a  newspaper?  For me there is none.  Even all of my favorite preachers, all of the Shuttlesworth's, even Smith Wigglesworth, even Tony Spell and Rodney Howard-Browne and John MacArthur.  They all have a personal net worth and cash flow statement and they are all very well aware of the numbers I would guess.  

In the case of Rodney Howard-Browne as I understand it he came to America from South Africa as missionary with a wife and three kids with three hundred American dollars in his wallet.  Today I would guess he has enough money to maintain a nice property and household for his family with plenty of room for guests and a decent funeral with his last will and testament and other affairs in order with his heirs named and he's heading for that same six foot hole for his earthly flesh body and eternal heaven with Jesuse for his soul.

Now if you look at the net worth and cash flow statement of his church, well I think there you are going to see numbers in the multi-millions on both pages.  And he has plenty of aircraft to get him to wherever he wants to go just like brother Jesse Duplantis down in New Orleans.  Now these are the men who are on the right track.  Oh but what about Henry Ford?  Was not Henry Ford a great man?  Or Daniel Webster?  Or Daniel Boone?  Or Abrahame Lincoln or Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee or George Washington himself?  Were these men not on the right track?  

So me myself sitting here at my plywood desk at sixty years of age, with one small computer and a  keyboard and a  mouse and an internet connection and a nice new car and a good job working four tens Friday through Monday, I am but a small man working on paying the bills and trying to build up for my retirement.  Am I alone there?  I think not.  Can you  tell a wise man by the way he speaks or spells?  Is this more important than the stories that he tells?

So look  at my previous posts and you will see some of my cash flow ideas.  I think not too many men would argue with me that more cash flow is better and more net worth is better.  The question becomes how do you get ahead of the game and what do you teach the future generations you leave behind?  King Randall is taking action in Albany, Georgia.  Elijah Bryant is working hard down in Tampa.  And what of this Pace Morby character?

Stay tuned for these answers and more here at The Doug Kenline Newsletter now publishing under the subsidiary goo-roo watch.