MoneyWalk 440: Have no other god, not even money

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Four of the Ten Commandments are directly related to our vertical responsibility to God. It is very important for our peace, health, and well-being throughout life that we allow the Holy Spirit to mold us into people who adhere to these commands. We should be encouraged to apply these commands in the financial arena of our lives as well as other arenas. When we don’t allow our lives to follow this path we receive the earthly and eternal consequences of the other path we have chosen. The first of these commands is to have no other God.

This should be really easy as there really is no other God. Your Creator is the maker of heaven and earth, who existed before time in the person of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The bible explains that our Triune God is one God and beside Him there is no other. In His perfect counsel, He chose to cloth the Son in flesh to live upon the earth as a man named Jesus Christ who put down his glory and power. He was sinless in all that He did on earth just as in heaven. He is our example of how we can hear and obey God’s instruction. He was crucified with his blood pour out so that we could be redeemed from the sinful path that we have chosen. Then, He was resurrected by the Father as firstborn of many brother/sisters as a guarantee that all who believe Him to be Savior and Lord will receive the same resurrection from the dead and eternal life.

There is no other name in heaven given among men whereby we can be saved. This principle of having no other God should emanate throughout our lives even into the financial arena. You put nothing else in the place of God when you recognize that He owns everything even all of the money and resources that come into your hands at any point in your life. In fact, He owns you and has the right to direct your steps: to tell you the principles that He wants you to live by and the methods that He wants you to use to manage the resources He has bestowed upon you. Thank God He does so for your good. You will be better off on earth and in eternity when you follow His principles and obey methods He has specifically directed you to use.

You make nothing else a god when you find out what His Word has to say about how you live and manage finances, when you pray asking Him to help you understand what His Word directs you to do, and when you obey His instructions and make plans to help solidify them in your life. Money does not become your god when you utilize the following biblical principles to do His will and direct your steps:

1. Work as unto the Lord in your chosen career path.
2. Work as unto the Lord in ministry doing good inside and outside the church walls.
3. Don’t be fooled into pursuing get-rich- quick and more-money-at-all-cost schemes.
4. Regularly tithe of your income.
5. Regularly give an offering from your income.
6. Regularly help the poor and oppressed including widows and orphans.
7. Consistently budget your income so you are keenly aware of how much comes in each pay period and how much you are expending each pay period for six months to one year in the future.
8. Eliminate debt and resist future debt that is not tied to appreciating assets and a level of income on which you can afford the debt payment if your economic climate does not turn out like you expect.
9. Refuse to cosign for others. Instead, give those who are trustworthy what you can afford to give them in cash to help them when they are truly in need.
10. Diligently save a portion of your income advancing to a point where down the road you are saving at least 10% to 15% of your gross income.
11. After you have built a substantial emergency fund, invest additional savings into assets that have a normal history of appreciation over 10-20 year periods (stocks, real estate, etc.).
12. Always believe that God has His best in mind for you and that He will bless you regardless of all the obstacles that confront you in order to help you carry out His will for your life on earth. This mindset may help you move into an entrepreneurial endeavor that really blows your socks off with regard to the income it produces and blessing it allows you to be in the lives of other people.

When you do these things you will have money and a guarantee that money will not have you and thus money will not be in a position to become your god.

Please pray for this ministry and email any questions. May God bless you richly as you follow His plan!!!
Exodus 20:3, Isaiah 43:10-11, Mark 12:30, Luke 16:13, Acts 4:12
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