What are you worth right now? If someone were to put a value on you, what would it be? How would you go about assessing your net worth?

Let me tell you what the world's way is. The world's way is to look at all your assets and to count up their value. So they would look at what your house is worth and put that in. What is your car worth? We will add that value.

How much money do you have in the bank? What shares do you have in companies and in stocks? What other valuable things do you own – jewelry or anything of value?

We add these all up and come to a figure, and that is considered your net worth.

If you were to do that, how would you shape up? Are you an asset to society? If you were to go to the bank would they consider you a good risk? What counts the most when it comes to your worth?

Assess Yourself

You know there are two kinds of millionaires out there. There is the millionaire who has attained his status through his own efforts of building up and accumulating wealth.

And there could be a millionaire who was handed it by someone else. Maybe somebody's father was a millionaire, and his dad died and left him the money. So now he has inherited the millions.

I want to tell you that there is a big difference between these two kinds of millionaires.

The first kind of millionaire can lose everything he owns so that by the world's standards he has no net worth at all. But he will still be a millionaire.

Do you know why? It is because he knows how to accumulate those things again. He may be a millionaire who right now has no net worth, but he is a millionaire because he knows how to generate millions.

The second guy is only a millionaire because of what he owns. Take away what he owns and he will be as poor as can be.

So you see your net worth isn't necessarily based on the assets that you hold in your hand. Your net worth is based on what is within you; on what you have available.

It is based on the tools that are in your hands that you can use to generate and create wealth.

When you look at it that way, you will find that when you come to assessing your own net worth, it is going to be somewhat different to the way the world would look at it.

If you were to assess your net worth right now, you would likely consider yourself pretty mediocre, pretty poor or pretty useless. Perhaps you think you have nothing.

Well let me tell you what you do have. There are many things that you have. I have done some teaching on this and I am going to be doing a lot more teaching, to show you what your assets are and how you can use them to increase your wealth.

Your Greatest Asset

But today I want to give you just one thing that you have right now that can be considered probably one of the most valuable things; something of greater worth than all of these other tangible assets.

Solomon says in Proverbs 10:20 and 21:

The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] worth little.

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for lack of wisdom.

Do you see it there again? It is the value and the power of words.

Why are words so powerful? Well we have been looking at that haven't we? It is because they come forth out of the wisdom of your spirit. And Solomon says again and again that wisdom will make you rich.

Wisdom will cause you to rise up and stand before kings. Wisdom will cause you to not be hidden, but to be seen in the world.

Wisdom will cause you to abound in every single thing and succeed in whatever you touch. It will give you more than the Midas touch.

King Midas is the famous story of the man who turned everything he touched to gold. We say that some people have the Midas touch, because it seems that they succeed in whatever business they try to do and they make money out of it.

Well you have some wealth, and that wealth is in your mouth. But some of what comes out of peoples' mouths is not wealth I can assure you.

You see it is not every word that matters. It is the right words. If you can learn to tap into the wealth in your spirit and express that wealth forth into the world through words, your net worth will increase on a continual basis.

People will be flocking to you because they will be hanging onto your every word. They will consider what you have to give, of far more wealth than the money that the bank could give them.

So why don't you just identify the wealth that you have? Why don't you recognize now your very own net worth? And why don't you start spreading some wealth around?

Have a wonderful weekend. And by Monday I trust that you will be speaking words, sending them forth and journaling - doing all of the things that we shared this week, and rising up and succeeding in this world.