The Sissi Principles: Sales, Investments, Salaries, Services and Inheritances

Contents

Introduction

What Exactly Are The SISSI Principles?

Chapter One

Sales

Buyers, Sellers, Buyers & Sellers

Chapter Two

Investments

Secular Examples of Sound Investing

Giving As An Investment

Chapter Three

Salaries

Tithing

Giving To Get Rich

Be Like Joseph!

Chapter Four

Services

Selling What You Do…Selling What You Know

Chapter Five

Inheritances

Endowments

The So-Called Wealth Of The Wicked

What Does It Mean To Be Blessed?

Chapter Six

Firstfruits

Conclusion

My Philosophy on the Acquisition of Wealth and Riches

Endnote

About The Author

The information in this book has been provided to you, the reader, in a sincere effort to enlighten those who have believed the hype of religious giving, and have not received the results they were promised when they supported various ministries.

Neither this book, nor the information contained in this book, nor is the title of this book is meant to deduce the sexual orientation of anyone who is mentioned herein, or has subsequently used any, or all of these principles to increase his, or her personal wealth. The title of this book is simply an acronym.

Introduction

There are literally thousands of self-help books flooding the world market today. Most, if not all of the authors of these books claim to offer insight into how their readers can improve their present condition, whether it be financial, physical, mental, spiritual, sociological, or psychological, providing the reader take the initiative to implement the principles outlined in the book, and that, to the specificity of the writer. Many of these books claim to offer insight into finances, health and beauty, relationships, spirituality, and they even address topics that range from how to tap into the supernatural, to how to improve your golf game. These insights however, are subject to, and contingent upon following the compulsory course of action, or the approved plan of attack recommended by the author of the book.

In addition to printed literature, there are self-help products sold everyday, the operative word being, sold. These products range in scope from those that serve to flatten your abdomen, to those that instruct the user on how to become rich through the acquisition of real estate. These products are sold by the millions, yet there seems to be an ever growing demand for them. Do those self-help products really work? Does an author’s mere suggestion that a person can live with more happiness, more wealth, and better health, have a profound affect on the reader without the reader actually implementing a simpler, more sound, practical principle other than the discipline under discussion in a particular book?

Can a mere motivational speech, or a good motivational book, cassette tape, or video cassette series for that matter, change a person’s life? Can any of these items effect positive changes if they are devoid of the necessary practical principals that govern good health, good financial management, good relationships, good mental astuteness, and good spirituality? Can they (self-help products) actually change the course of a life, and redirect the course of one’s destiny, for the better? Well, with regard to our earlier assertion, there are millions of products being sold today, in every arena of discipline, to all kinds of people, with all kinds of diverse needs, however; most of those products lack the essential elements that can truly make the necessary changes in a person’s life that will change that life forever.

It is somewhat sad to see the thousands of people who have sought to help themselves through suggestive input by their favorite self-help personality, discover that after the self-help honeymoon is over, their shattered dreams turned nightmares of being mass-manipulated are only beginning. The painful realization of the sense of being manipulated by those who prey upon a desperate segment of society is all too real, and equally as agonizing. It is one thing to sell a kid a rock and call it a pet, but it is another thing to manipulate an honest, but desperate hurting individual into buying into a scheme that ultimately is devised specifically for the seller’s personal enrichment.

I was born into and was subsequently raised in a religious environment where many things were promised to me. It seemed that even more than the promise of a deeper spirituality, and a more personal relationship with the Creator, I was promised a slice of pie. Now, this pie was not the kind of pie that Fannie Mae (my mother) used to make; and God knows that mama could certainly do a sweet potato pie! It wasn’t a pecan pie, which happens to be my favorite type of pie. It wasn’t even pizza pie…with double sausage, and double cheese! This slice of pie was a slice of life…the good life, as it were. I was never promised a slice of that pie in any school I ever attended, even though I had some teachers who took a genuine interest in my acquiring the knowledge necessary for me to succeed academically.

I was never offered this slice of pie when I attended the Boys Club and summer camp, even though there were people there who ensured that we all worked hard to form good strong relationships, and good social behavioral lifestyles. This promise of pie always seemed to come from the very place where it was apparent to me that people who were in desperate need came to find hope of having those desperate needs met! Furthermore, it seemed that in order for those needs to be met, there was always a price to be paid. When we say a price we literally mean a price.

It is disheartening to realize that manipulative capitalism pervades the majority of American consumerism, but it even more funereal to realize the fact that a great percentage of the manipulation of misery is coming from our sacred pulpits. Unfortunately, the promise of obtaining your slice of pie is still being offered today by churches all over the world, without giving parishioners the basic information as to how to actually achieve that end. Contemporary American clergy are heavily armed with current technical and tactical proficiencies designed specifically to entice in some cases, but coerce in most, people showing signs of particular desperation, regarding prosperity, health, love, and/or mental and psychological instability. However, these manipulative campaigns always carry with them, the promise of at least one of two things: a blessing, or a curse!

The blessing is promised when those in desperate situations acquiesce to the implied requirement imposed by those doing the manipulating. However, the implied promise or blessing is that if you do what is required of you that you too will be blessed, as they themselves, are blessed. The flip side to this contriving coin is yet another promise…the promise…or in my estimation, the veiled threat…of a God-sanctioned curse!

I often study so-called rich people. I also study the so-called wealthy people. Please believe me; understand that there is a difference between the two. In studying these people, I often wondered how these persons became rich, or even in some cases, extremely wealthy. The focus of my studies led me to target primarily two groups of people: charismatic preachers (Those who head large ministries, both men and women), and businesspersons (Those who head large companies, both men and women). I focused my study on these two groups simply because these are the people I encounter most in my everyday life, that is, with regard to people who have amassed, or have the potential to amass a great deal of wealth in a relatively short period of time. In concentrating my study, it was apparent to me that businesspersons aren’t necessarily preachers, but preachers (especially those belonging to the aforementioned group) are indeed businesspersons.

It was only practical that I not constrain my studies to businesspersons only, but for the purposes of this book we will include pastors, evangelists, and independent ministerial associations, all of whom conduct business on an ongoing basis.

The evangelical church in America has a long history of structuring the hope of many who attend the local church with promises of among other things, health, wealth, happiness, and prosperity. It seems that the more desperate the circumstances of the people, the greater the promises made to them. As I stated previously, the fulfillment of these promises often come with a price tag. This price tag as it were, hangs on the proverbial garment of every desperate need imaginable, and it also seems that the greater the desperation, the greater the price tag! More often than not, the price to be paid must be paid in cash. It is not uncommon in contemporary Christian circles for respected members of our American clergy to solicit contributions upwards of several thousand dollars. Consequently, those solicitations, in order to deem them valid, are accompanied by promises that the clergyman of his own delegated power and provision, cannot fulfill.

These promises often misrepresent God, placing God in a precarious position to deliver on something that He Himself, did not promise! This breech of contract is responsible for the dramatic decline in Faith; not so much a decline in faith in God the Creator, but in the tactical, aggressive implementation of manipulation imposed upon the American parishioner. Similarly, it is not uncommon to witness those who mount the platform of religiosity via mass media flaunt with no compunction whatsoever, the riches which they have gleaned from the fields of human desperation having done so under the auspices of their implied perfect obedience and adherence to a process that seems to work on the behalf of the select, and not the masses.

Have you ever wondered exactly how these people became rich, and in some cases wealthy, and in many cases, in a relatively short period of time? Well, so have I, and I took it upon myself to not only find out how they did it, but to pass this information on to those who would take the time to read this book. Clergy in America are quick to sell products that do much by way of encouraging one to gain wealth and prosperity, but those products do little, in fact very little, to tell us how to actually go about getting the wealth.

Many pastors tell their parishioners to sow seed, but they infer that seed is exclusively money! They do all they can to encourage you to be wealthy, but they won’t tell you how they themselves became wealthy, other than ascribing their wealth to faith in God. Those same clergy neglect to inform those who wish to glean from their experiences, even after having purchased their products, the information so desperately needed to change for the better, the course, and subsequent outcomes of their lives.

I have studied preachers in particular, because I am a preacher. I am a seminary-degreed, Bible-believer! However, in all of my years of seminary study, I have yet to take a course on how to use the Mosaic Law, the Pentateuchal representations of blessings and curses, and/or the Minor Prophet admonition of the Mosaic mandate to tithe, to twist desperate people for money! However, I have read where Jesus Christ, the Son of The Living God, instilled the simple principle of reciprocal giving to those who would assume the work of the first-century church.

There are many ways to realize prosperity, that is, prosperity in whatever area or discipline in which you need to prosper, but there are five basic principles to amassing great wealth. The world financial system as we know it today was built upon these principles, and they still stand the test of time. I am going to share these five basic principles with you, so that you the reader, can fully understand for yourself, that there is no pie in the sky, but that there are principles that govern the amassing of wealth, and the transference of the same. Of these principles, there are five, and I have taken the liberty as the author of this work, of coining these propositions: The SISSI Principles.

Again, I have coined this phrase, and relative to this phrase there are five distinct subdivisions. These principles or concepts, are not techniques, however, the principles themselves have been used in one way or another, to amass wealth for literally thousands of years. If you were to interview 100 of the richest people in the world and inquire as to how they acquired such wealth, I can almost promise you that their wealth came by way of one of these principles. I can say most assuredly that not one of them paid a tithe, stepped out on the back patio with their arms outstretched and watched a hundred million dollars fall from the sky.

Now, we must stress that we do understand that there are other ways to come into wealth that do not include any of the five principles outlined in this book. There are exceptions to every rule and The SISSI Principles are no exception. These exceptions, or various other ways people use to gain wealth other than Sales, Investments, Services, Salaries, and Inheritances include but are not limited to lottery winners, gambling, lawsuit settlements, monetary gifts or assignments, price gouging, illegal enterprise, extortion, theft, insurance beneficiaries, etc.

The term SISSI is an acrostic, and an acrostic, or an acronym is defined per www.Dictionary.com as, "A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or