How I ended up a Christian......and made a website about Jesus
My name is Mike Lazarus. Yep, the name "Lazarus" sounds familiar if you know your bible. He was Jesus' friend - the friend He brought back to life. Unfortunately, I got the name from my Jewish grandpa through my dad's adoption - but close enough! I decided to build this website to spread the Gospel (good news) of Jesus ...and pay my bills at the same time - this page tells you how. Many people I interact with everyday are eager to share their own beliefs with me once they find out I'm "spiritual" and I own a website. I was in their shoes at one point.... Yep, I wasn't always a Christian, but since then I have overcome many setbacks (with God's help) and I'm on my way to becoming financially independent, and so can you. How? Read my story... A Teenager - before finding GodI used to look up to my stepdad. His name is Vern, and he was the man I wanted to become. It was finally looking like life was going to get better. He just bought us our first house with his BIG military promotion.6 months later he suffered a massive stroke, and he is now mentally handicapped. Life can change in an instant, can't it?
Without my step dad's guidance, I found the wrong crowd to hang out with. I started a rap group and produced beats in my basement recording studio. I started drinking, smoking, swearing, and just not caring. Nobody was about to change me - I was a breed of the worst. I still knew how to act politely around others, but I had a heart of stone. God working behind the scenesI was working at my dreaded 9-5 job at a pizza shop. This girl I worked with suggested that we hang out sometime. I was interested in dating her, but I kept that to myself at the time.So I invited her to a party - big mistake!
At this point I started becoming obsessed with wanting to date her. I remember leaving the party room, taking a bunch of beer into my friends basement and drinking away my sorrows. Then my friend came down and asked why I was in the basement. He knew what was on my mind. As he walked up the stairs, he uttered the last words I ever wanted to hear - the truth... "It's never gonna happen, man. You KNOW that." I BURSTED into an unmeasurable amount of tears, feeling completely defeated. I found the strength to reach for a rugged, torn up blanket and crawled into a corner. I couldn't control my emotions - the fear, the hate, the anger, the love, the defeat - all at once! For the first time, I called on a higher power. I knew my situation was impossible to fix, so I prayed for a miracle. ...and that prayer continued over the course of several weeks. Everytime I prayed, I specifically requested a miracle. Then I was at work and met another girl. She was one of the customers. I asked her for her number and she already had it written down for me! Then I took an order for an old lady several hours later and when I asked what her name was, she gave me the name "Miracle". Wow. I'm now married to the girl I met that day. She's a christian, too! So from that point I searched for God and finally found Him. Married and broke! My wife (girlfriend at the time) had plans to leave for college after finishing her senior year of high school. We knew that would be the end of our relationship if she went, so she decided not to.I knew I didn't want to go to college, and I didn't want to work anymore 9-5 jobs! I wanted financial security doing something I love. So I set a goal for myself: "I wanted a job that would make me jump out of bed in the morning with joy, and that would provide enough income to start a family." Sounds too good to be true? What is truth anyway, and what's the source of truth? Examine your life. If you keep walking the winding path your on, where will it lead you? Only fools chase the wind. I set myself a realistic goal, but had to find it first and meet it halfway. My solution...Do you have to go to college to pursue your dreams? Our society will tell you it's required, but they're dead wrong. The end result is the same, and it's so simple: Make a living doing something you love!Remember that goal I set for myself a few paragraphs ago? Well, I found it, met it halfway, and am a couple months away from reaching it, and I'll show you how I'm doing it! My passion is writing about Jesus Christ, but you can do what I'm doing with any passion, hobby, or skill. Everybody is an expert at something, and you can turn that knowledge into an income in your spare time! My first BIG step toward meeting my goal happened when I stumbled upon SBI. SBI stands for Site Build It! They are a company that specializes in turning your passion, hobby, or skill into a profitable online adventure. They specialize in it. It's what they do. Many people don't understand that almost any topic can make money with an website. "Wait...a website?" I know your telling yourself your not a computer whiz. But If you can get online and read email, you can actually build a website - no joke.
"Never be afraid to try something new; remember amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic"
They take you from where your at right now. They teach you how to pick a profitable topic, teach you how to build it and get traffic from the search engines (which is how you found me! It's really easy - trust me), and teach you how to make an income from it - even if it's a site about "porcupine mating habits..." (I hope you can do better than that, though.) If your wondering how the whole process works, have a peek at the video tour, which was put together by Ken Evoy, the founder and creator of SBI. He's really involved with his customers, and he's ALWAYS interacting with us at the forums. Notice the variety of topics people write about and successfully transform into an income. Most SBI sites place in the top 1% of the most visited sites on the web.
Right now, I'm in the top 2% of the most visited sites on the web, and when I reach top 1% (and I'm getting close), THEN I plan on working in some streams of income. I'm sure that I will be able to quit my day job some time this year, and my site is just over one year old. I'll admit - I chose a website topic with countless competition so I have to work much harder to acheive the same results. You can expect greater success if you don't bend the rules like I did, but I was called by God to chase this topic. How much work is involved? The first couple weeks will be rough, but they don't just throw everything at you and say "go!". It's one step at a time, and they walk you through every step so you will never be confused. Besides, if it's a hobby your passionate about, it won't feel like work at all. But if it IS too much, they have a rock solid money back guarantee. But if your looking to get rich quick, SBI is not for you. It's a process that doesn't bear results immediately, but when it finally does, it's a BIG payoff for the time you've invested! If your wondering how you will make money with your site, there's soooo many different ways. I know I'm not the only one that wants to escape the 9-5 drudgery. Ecclesiastes 9:10 says "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might." If your dream is similar to mine, then what are you waiting for?
"100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."
Try SBI - Because if I can do this, you can too!
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At the party, she met one of my friends and grew really attached to him. I started feeling jealous. She started showing up with him to the same party every weekend and started ignoring me.
You don't need any programming skills or webdesign knowledge, no business, and no product to sell. Just bring your brain and motivation. SBI has all the tools you need, and they take you by the hand and teach you step by step how to use everything.
Remember, although my goal in the end with this website is to become financially independent, my FIRST concern is to introduce the Gospel of Jesus to the lost. I'm far more interested right now in traffic than an income (I like my day job :-)