The parable of the talents ends with the Master saying, "So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 25:28-30)
The servant ends up losing what the Master gave him, and it is given to the one who had turned five talents into ten. When we say, "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer," we usually see that as an indication of how unfair life can be. But when we look at this parable we see that this is actually God's plan.
The servant who had received the one talent had taken it and hidden it in the ground. By taking the talent out of circulation, he had made it completely worthless. But the benefit of keeping money in circulation, and creating wealth, is that it increases the supply of wealth that is available to everyone.
The Bible tells us that Solomon was the wisest man that had ever lived. His wisdom not only brought him great wealth, but in 2 Chronicles 1:15 we read about Solomon "he made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones."
God is a Creator, and His desire is to see everything bring forth more and more fruit, even multiply. The reason is that He wants to increase the blessings that are available to everyone. He does that by giving us everything we need in order to create wealth. He expects us to do it because He knows that it will benefit everyone around us.
When God puts money into our hands, He expects us to have the faith to ask Him for wisdom. When we receive His wisdom and increase our wealth, He will give us more. He gives more wealth to those that can multiply it, even if they don't know Him. Proverbs 13:22 tells us that even the wealth of the sinner is "stored up for the righteous."
When it comes to money, creating wealth should be our first priority because it is God's first priority. He will even allow sinners to create wealth because the time will come when He will give that wealth to the righteous. But I'm sure that He would rather have the righteous create the wealth in the first place.
Throughout the history of religion, people have wondered if someone can be both rich and righteous. And many religions have taught that money is evil, and that a truly holy person is someone who had denounced all worldly goods and pleasures.
The Bible tells us that Jesus came so that we would have life and abundance (John 10:10). And that God has given each of us, no matter where we are, everything we need in order to be successful.
Our success isn't measured by our possessions, but by our faithfulness with the wealth God has entrusted to us. He expects us to be faithful with money before He will give us the true riches, and that means that we are to multiply our wealth. No matter where we are, whether in an American mega-church, or a house church in the poorest country of the world, we can be faithful with what is available to us. We can all seek God for His wisdom, and find ways to bring blessing to those around us. We all have our talents, and we can all multiply them.
The online gaming industry has produced multiple Billionaires over the last 7 years. That's billionaire with a B. Look at Ruth Parasol, founder of Party Poker (Party Gaming). Ruth standed to make an additional $683 million the day her company went public. Then, there is Calvin Ayre. He founded the Bodog sports book empire. Bodog takes hundreds of millions of dollars in beting action each year.
There appears to be a shroud of mystery around the legality of online gaming. At times, the United States government has intervened and tried to police the world as one nation. The interesting thing to note is that there are many variables to setting up and doing business as an online gaming company. US citizen or not, the US government has only gone after sports book and sports book processing companies.
In the past 7 years, US citizens contributed most of the online gaming revenue globally. In the past two years, things have really started to change. Regardless of recent US law changes, US players really haven't slowed down with online gaming. Online gaming is growing at a cancerous rate. This is because of internet broadband expansion on a global basis. People from around the world are now able to participate with online gaming. They are finally able to do so because of high speed internet access availability..
If every US citizen stopped placing wagers online today, the online global gaming industry would still grow at an alarming rate. What's even more interesting, is that NOT one US citizen has ever been prosecuted by the US government for taking wagers online from non-us citizens outside of this country.
Thanks to client language software (software that runs in different languages), it is now possible to market gaming globally and successfully. You can be a US citizen, and legally own and operate an online casino, poker room, and or sports book, providing that NONE of your customers are in the United States, or are US citizens.
The recent US law banning US poker may get repealed this month. You can learn more about that by researching the UIGEA repeal ACT to be held on September, 26th, 2007. Not to mention, it looks like the government will never go after poker rooms due to the public unrest involved against the law. There are at least 5 large successful poker rooms that still take US players. They promote their poker sites all over television with US poker celebrities as their spokesmen. They are Poker Stars, Ultimate Bet, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, and Doyles Room. One of the founders of Doyles Room is Doyle Brunson. Doyle lives in Nevada and doesn't hide under his bed. The only type of gaming site that the US government has ever gone after is a sports book. The only type of processing company the US government has ever gone after is a processing company that would process the sports books deposits/withdrawals.
If you ever wanted to get involved with the online gaming industry and you happen to be a US citizen, you could play the "game" extremely safe by NOT doing one thing. Don't take US players wagers. Even though they probably will never go after poker sites, take the safe route anyways.
Half of the online gaming market is now outside of the US. This is a almost a $20 billion dollar a year industry to date. You can legally get a piece of this as a US citizen without the scrutiny of the US government. If you think it's too late to become wealthy in the industry, it's not. The industry s growing every day and will do so through 2012.
Starting a poker room for instance, isn't that difficult providing you have player liquidity. This simply means having enough players to allow for diversity of available poker games. The easiest way to ensure this, is by integrating your poker room into one of the larger poker networks whom have 20,000+ real poker players, playing poker at any given time on their poker network.
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