This program will help you undo financial bondage.
A net worth calculation is a measuring stick to see how successful your financial plan or lack of a financial plan has been for you. Net worth is the value of all your assets minus the amount of all your liabilities. Assets are the items you own. Liabilities are debts you owe someone else for material goods, services, or loans. Monetary net worth lets you know, if liquidated, how far into the future you could pay current monthly expenses and debt payments if income from employment or business stopped coming in or was drastically reduced. It's a necessary measurement for short-term and long-term planning because many people, including Christians, experience negative financial situations, emergencies, hardships, and catastrophes. Managing money according to biblical financial principles helps weather storms of adversity and keep the blessing of God upon your life no matter what the enemy does to try and harm you.
Many Christians think having large retained savings and investments violates scriptural instruction, faith, and trust in God. They fail to realize many bible patriarchs and matriarchs retained large sums of wealth. Only one time did Jesus tell a man to sell all he had. According to Jesus explanation to the disciples afterward, anyone giving up everything to follow Him would receive many times as much in this life and eternal life as well. There is no scriptural instruction against being wealthy. Scripture simply commands people, rich and poor, to not love money or hasten to be rich and to be good stewards by being faithful, responsible, industrious, productive, and generous in giving for gospel endeavors. in proportion to their incomes and assets. This greatly supports the work of His church in leading people to Him and discipling them.
Unbelievers are unlikely to give and work toward this cause. Christians who are poor stewards usually give very little because they do not prioritize giving and spend way too much on meaningless things and endeavors, just like unbelievers. Properly managing their working lives and income therefrom will produce 30, 60, or 100-fold beyond what they have been initially entrusted with. When you understand you cannot out give God, you know why current day faithful Christians with great wealth are not an abomination to Him. They are indeed a blessing to believers and unbelievers alike because their obedience in consistently using biblical money management principles increases their income, investments, and other resources so they can give exorbitantly more to ministry work than people who may be in a similar income category but have no allegiance to Jesus Christ and the manner in which He’d have us live. In many instances, those with the mind of Christ have an ability to purchase opulence, yet the priority of their lives is to enjoy fellowship with the Lord, find the center of His will and purpose for their lives, and abundantly fund ministry that leads people to Him.
Don’t believe wealth accumulation is ungodly, instead consider what the bible truly says and shows. Also, consider the fact that you spend far more on your desires than what you give. Earning more would help you change this pattern and give you more for spreading the gospel. You matter to God and He wants your life to be abundant and continually increasing in every way. Managing your life and money according to His holy standards produces such increase that blesses Jesus, others, and you. This is a recipe for real JOY!
Genesis 13:2, Job 42:12, Luke 19:2-10, 1Timothy 6:17-19, James 5:1-6
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The book at the link below provides principles and practical steps that help you use the Power To Get Wealth. By 1992, we had $135,000 of debt and a negative $35,000 net worth. Financial bondage and turmoil led me to seek principles and a process for employing good stewardship. As a result, we became constructively debt-free in 1998, mortgage free January 2004, millionaires in 2012, multi-millionaires shortly thereafter, and retired in 2018 in my mid-fifties from public servant jobs while giving abundantly to fund the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ. The same power is available to you!
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