Common Sense Commentary: God gave these seven keys in Proverbs 3 that believers might know how to open His blessings of "Long Life, Peace of mind, Divine and Human Favor, His Direction for their lives, Good Health, Plentiful Resources, Assurance of His Love, and with the Master Key of Scriptural Wisdom to open all these things into our lives.
1.God's Law & Heart Kept Commandments Key.
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
This Key Opens The Long Life & Peace Of Mind LifeLock.
Proverbs 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
2. God's Mercy & Truth Key.
Proverbs 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
This Key Opens The Divine & Human Favor LifeLock.
Proverbs 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
3.God's Trust & Commitment Key.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
This Key Opens God's Direction for our lives LifeLock.
Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
4.God's Humility & Reverence Key.
Proverbs 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
This Key Opens God's Health LiveLock.
Proverbs 3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
5.God's Honor & Giving Key.
Proverbs 3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
This Key Opens God's LifeLock on Plenty Sufficiency
Proverbs 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
6.God's Patient Enduring Key.
Proverbs 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
This Key Opens Assurance of His Love LifeLock.
Proverbs 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
7. God's Master Wisdom Key.
Proverbs 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
This Key Opens All These LifeLock Blessings into your life.
Proverbs 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Proverbs 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Proverbs 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Proverbs 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. RB
In the week that the European Central Bank cut its deposit rate for banks from zero to -0.1%, economist Martin Armstrong warns that negative interest rates are coming to the United States, meaning that Americans will be forced to pay just to keep their money in the bank.
In a move described as unprecedented, the ECB became the first central bank in history to cut any main interest rate to negative yesterday, part of a package of measures designed to encourage banks to provide more loans to businesses and households. Many view the policy as a desperate sign of Europe’s faltering economic recovery.
Critics claim that the action will do little to spur growth while threatening to cause inflation and unemployment. While banks in the EU have not indicated whether or not the costs will be passed on to consumers, the New York Times’ Neil Irwin asserts that this is inevitable.
“Banks will most likely pass these negative interest rates on to consumers, or at least try to. They may try to do so not by explicitly charging a negative interest rate, but by paying no interest and charging a fee for account maintenance,” he writes.
What about Americans? Will they also soon be charged by the bank simply for depositing their own money? Yes, according to economist Martin Armstrong.
Armstrong, who is noted for calling the 1987 economic crash to the very day, warns that U.S. banks are preparing a raft of new account fees that will serve as a de facto negative interest rate.
“In the USA, we are more-likely-than-not going to get the negative rates directly passed to consumers by the banks who will claim it is the Fed who will do so at the requests of the banks. Larry Summers has set the stage. This is just how it works. He flew the balloon to get everyone ready. This is likely to be bullish for the stock market,” writes Armstrong, noting that, “The talk behind the curtain is to impose negative interest rates on the consumer.”