Saturday, March 27, 2010

MoneyWalk 456: Love compels me

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

So many people are focused on becoming rich and great in the eyes of other people. While God is able to prosper you and to do so in a very immense way so that your prosperity exceeds that of all your fellows, a heart and mind focused on a priority to obtain riches and fame will in the end pierce your heart with many sorrows. If you fail to repent and turn your heart to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord the consequences are as eternally damning as committing sin because failure to turn to Christ and live and move and have your being in Him is sin.

Don’t get me wrong, being rich and famous in and of itself is not sin. These things are amoral having no right or wrong assigned to them. However, a sinful lifestyle is shown when you pursue or have riches and fame and you also:

1) Have an attitude that places them higher in priority than having relationship with Christ.

2) Take actions that pursue them from a heart that is not focused on using them to do God’s will.

3) Fail to use them to evangelize and disciple other people and care for your family in a godly manner.

Whether you call yourself Christian or not, this type of heart and mindset can lead to engaging in money management, investing, giving, and other money related activities that are not pleasing to God and that may not be helpful to other people. Some will see your activities even when you think no one is looking, some will take on your mindset and emulate your negative money activities, and some will put you in high esteem for the success it seems you achieved and unfortunately will get the idea that pursuit of riches and greatness on earth is the highest priority.

Therefore, a Christian must be careful to pursue God in Christ more than anything else. This is done only through the love of God poured into your heart by the Holy Ghost. Of course, God wants every person to come to Him via Christ and thus allow His love to be the only motivation for everything we do including earning, managing, and growing money. Love never fails and creates for you an everlasting habitation in the presence of God. Money and greatness cannot do this, but they can be used in a mighty way to further the work of the kingdom that needs to be done here on earth to focus and lead men to Christ.

So as you pursue money making, managing, investing, and business pursuits make sure you maintain your love relationship with Lord, spend time with Him daily, be guided by His Spirit, obey His biblical commands and principles, and speak and act as Christ’s ambassador on the earth. Take instruction from the examples of missionaries we love so much and support. The love of God in them and trust in His care compels them to move into hostile territory when called, face possible death, and much suffering.

Tens of millions of dollars flow into their hands, yet they do not put their trust in it. Rather, they recognize as children of Abraham they are blessed to be a blessing to many others. Love moves them to sacrifice, suffer afflictions, and great personal loss at times on earth in order to spread this great gospel throughout the world. They shall receive an everlasting crown from almighty God that is much more precious and enduring. This too should be our focus.

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Matthew 22:36-40, Mark 10:21, John 14:15, James 1:12
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

MoneyWalk 50: Warfare Is Necessary

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Satan and his cohorts wage war against you by introducing thoughts and desires that conflict with the will of God. You should eliminate the effect of these attacks by having a relationship with Jesus Christ, knowing Father God’s will as conveyed in the bible, talking with Him daily, listening for His instruction, and obeying biblical instructions in conjunction with what the Holy Spirit directs you to do. When you’re on this path, our triune God will support, empower, and help you be fruitful and thus successful in life and the management of the money God entrusts to you.

When relationship with God is engaged in this way you will pray and learn scripture that will help you voice and declare victory in the name of Jesus over all that the enemy is trying to mess up in your life. In addition, you will regularly fellowship with other believers who will encourage you and example for you ways in which you can exercise victory over your enemies and fruitfulness in your life.

Such a walk with God will cause you to:

1) Declare that by grace the blood of Jesus covers all your past sins and helps you overcome future blunders.

2) Praise God for all that He's done for you in the past by taking care of you, providing for you, and bringing you to the place where you now see the truth.

3) Worship Him by telling Him how much you love and adore Him and thank Him for living in you as your guiding light.

4) Rebuke, bind, and cast out demonic forces to make them flee from you to allow you to more clearly see what God wants you to do.

5) Loose obedience to God in your life to move you to do what He wants you to do.

These actions help you utilize the whole armor of God to protect you against demonic attacks and thrust you into a future of leading many people to Jesus Christ and to good stewardship. Such positive faith declarations dispatch heavenly angels to fight unseen spiritual battles against demonic angels. At the direction of God, the heavenly army clears your pathway so you can appropriate the victory Christ won for you by His life, death, burial, and resurrection.

When you've done all you can by using prayer, warfare, and biblical principles, just stand on the truth of God's word and before long you'll begin to prosper like never before.

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Matthew 16:18-19, Romans 8:26-28, 37-39, 2Corinthians 10:3-6; Ephesians 6:10-20
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

MoneyWalk 49: Prayer Is Necessary

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Satan and his demonic forces are doing everything they can to keep you from financing the saturation of the whole world with the gospel of Jesus Christ through evangelism and discipleship of every person that is willing to draw near to Him. This is the manner in which we establish God’s covenant in the earth.

If the demonic forces can keep you in debt, unwilling to tithe and give offerings to church ministry, then they will succeed in their plan for you and other people that follow your example. So, you must remember that the failure to understand biblical financial principles and follow them will play right into the enemies hands and cause you knowingly or unknowingly to be a pawn of the dark side.

However, the prayers of the righteous availeth much and will allow you to press forward in the face of continual demonic attacks designed to try and take you off God’s course. Satan and his demonic forces have been defeated since their rebellion in heaven and Jesus' earthly life, death, and resurrection gave every believer total and complete victory. However, that victory is appropriated in your life through prayer for godly wisdom which allows you to act in accordance with God’s will.

Prayer activates spiritual weapons that are supernaturally mighty for pulling down strongholds, changing attitudes, and placing ungodly desires into captivity. It allows you to rule demonic powers and foil their plans against you, your family, and the church. The name of Jesus, the blood of Jesus, and your Christian testimony give you the winning offense against Satan, defend against all demonic attacks, and remove all bondages placed on you.

Obeying God's commands and principles make your spiritual weapons effective against the enemy and move God to rebuke the devourer on your behalf. So, engage secret closet prayer as well as praise and worship throughout the day because it will help line up your will, attitude, and actions in a way that show you love God and other people. This in turn will help you do all you can to properly manage the money that is entrusted to you.

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Psalms 37:4-6, Matthew 16:18-19, 18:18-20, 2Corinthians 10:3-6, Ephesians 6:18-19
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

MoneyWalk 48: What's Your Plan?

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

A plan is a detailed written map of pursuits, goals, objectives, steps, and tasks that come from the vision God has given you concerning how your life is to be used to bring glory to Him, help spread the gospel in the earth, usher more and more people into His heavenly kingdom, and do good works that bless others.

Craft a plan that considers the:

1. Financial and life lessons learned from your past stewardship.

2. Current and future resources that will likely be available.

3. Future picture of how your situation will look in the natural as you follow the giving, saving, spending, and bill paying efforts you establish.

4. Future picture of how you (if the Lord wills) believe your situation will look as you pursue the needs and desires associated with the vision God has given you for the use of your life. God will put the super to your natural to catapult you far behind what you can think or imagine you could do.

A plan isn't hard to follow when you’re committed to taking on no more debt on items that depreciate in value. The budget part of your plan should start with your current situation and flow at least six months into the future. Also, you should regularly consult the budget because it will quickly let you know how much disposable income you'll have available for future purchases. It helps you exert self-control over the temptation to spend money you don't have and lets you know when it is financially feasible to make desired purchases such as homes, cars, vacations, hobbies, etc.

Keeping your heart and eye focused on the plan helps you achieve giving, saving and investment goals that are worthwhile and meaningful in fulfilling the purpose for your life. Your commitment to the budgeting process will help you see interest charges eliminated, disposable income growth, and savings expand enormously in the future because you wrote the vision plainly on paper and followed it.

A computer spreadsheet and budgeting software are better budget-drafting tools because of their ability to quickly and easily copy information over and over and automatically perform mathematical calculations that show you where you are and help you see where you can be in the future by following the plan and budget. However, pen and paper can work well and indeed that is how I started the process in my life.

A continual financial planning and budgeting process will bring your release from financial bondage much sooner than you ever thought possible. You'll see dreams and goals come true, your life's mission fulfilled, and material blessings increase. However, your wallet will be a bag with holes in it and your life will be filled with embarrassment and troubles when you don't draft a life and financial plan and budget and consult them before making spending decisions.

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Proverbs 3:5-6, 6:6-11, 16:9, Luke 14:27-33, 2Corinthians 1:15-19, 1Peter 1:18-20
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