Sunday, October 30, 2022

MoneyWalk 173 Avoid Predatory Lending

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Search the Bible to understand satan’s tactics. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you see when the enemy is employing his wiles against you, including when they seem like a good thing presented to you. Eventually, the results will be destructive. The enemy presented instructions to Jesus, taken from Old Testament scriptural descriptions:

** Turn these stones to bread to relieve you hunger.

** Throw yourself down from the temple pinnacle to prove your eternal stature.

** Fall down and worship me to gain the world and its riches.

To many people, such enticements seem acceptable to the human mind (the flesh, the eyes, and human intellect), given desires raging in us for pleasure, notoriety, power, success, etc. However, they were temptations far off the mark because they attempted to lead Jesus’ heart away from trusting Father God in order to complete the work He was sent to do. 

He knew the devil (father of lies) was talking and understood heavenly instruction for His life. Following these temptations would have turned Jesus toward satisfying selfish desires instead of trusting the Father and Holy Spirit to get Him to His ultimate destination. Worse yet, there would have been no way for mankind to be redeemed from eternal damnation, the penalty of our sin.

You should also refuse to follow satan’s instructions, no matter the manner they are given (via worldly counselors, the Joneses lifestyle, or your ungodly humanistic thoughts patterns). When you know satan’s tactics, you can avoid being his prey along with the hurt he would otherwise bring into your life. One tactic to be aware of is predatory lending. Lenders who employ such techniques generally get you hooked into loans that charge very high interest rates and fees. They ethically defraud you by offering loans way too high for your income to handle. The perpetrators aren’t interested in truly serving by helping you get out of debt and better your financial situation. They intend to place you and many other people in positions that keep you locked into a continual series of predatory loans that keep you in financial bondage and forever indebted to them.

Many people feel trapped by these lenders because they don’t apply godly wisdom to their stewardship of resources Father God entrusts to them. They fail to:

** Budget to tell money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

** Crucify lusts by refusing to love material things so much they’ll get them at all costs.

** Work a plan that eliminates debt and financial bondage from their lives.

** Get into a position where they can pay cash for things desired instead of taking out loans to get them.

Don’t fall victim to predatory loan schemes and those who perpetrate them. Be more than a conqueror who uses godly wisdom to walk in victory by refusing poor money management and lifestyle practices. Remember, the borrower is slave to the lender. The Lord doesn’t want you to be satan’s slave or servant. No son or daughter of His becomes entangled in pursuits conflicting with His instructions. The aim is to satisfy the One who enlisted you to be a witness, disciple-maker, and godly example to other people.

Deuteronomy 28:12, Proverbs 22:7, 2Corinthians 11:13-15, 1Peter 5:8-9

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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!

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Get-Wealth-Randy-Parlor-ebook/dp/B08QCH5MVH/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Randy+Parlor&qid=1638336718&s=books&sr=1-2

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