Monday, October 18, 2010

MoneyWalk 72: The LORD Promotes

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

A great promotion may be something other than a higher-level position with an employer. For example, knowing the state of your income versus expenses, refusing to enslave yourself in debt, living beneath your income, and faithfully saving money promote you in life far ahead of your peers regardless of whether you receive an employment promotion because most refuse to adhere to such principles and thus bring themselves and their families much heartache and financial strain in life no matter what employment promotions they attain.

When promotion seeking comes from the desire to meet man’s requirements, which are outside of what God wants for your life, discontent will usually appear. This pursuit of promotion encourages you to think negatively about your current position, income, and resources instead of continually thanking God for allowing you to be in the place that you are. Even though your position may be great among men you’ll develop an attitude where the current situation is never enough.

This brings about negative comments about your employer, supervisor, and position, which usually follow an initial bout of pride, haughtiness, and disregard for living Christ-like. Failing to realize that there is a character building reason why God has allowed you to be in your current position and thanking Him for the maturity He’s allowing you to develop as a result, leads to blessings in your life turning out to be curses to you because you will fail to manage in a godly manner your tongue, lifestyle, ministry to others, income, and material resources. You may continue to get promoted on earth but you will experience an empty void in your soul and relationships with God and man.

On the other hand, Godly promotions come through humility and meekness in fellowship with and allegiance to Christ. His elevation of your earthly status will usually grant you the things that matter most: eternal life, better relationships with family, strong and enduring friendships with reliable people, a worthy career, job, and ministry role with more than enough resources to fulfill your purpose, and respect in the eyes of your peers and superiors who have spiritual eyesight.

God guaranteed that using biblical principles will bring fruitfulness and promotion in your life regardless of whether man ever promotes you or not. When you’re humble before Him, He will raise you up in due time and will make room among influential men for the gift He’s given you.

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Psalms 75:6-10, Proverbs 3:35, Daniel 4:30-35, 1Peter 5:6-11

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