MoneyWalk 187: A Lesson From The Widows

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

The widow had planned to fix her family a meal with the last of her flour and oil and then expected everyone to die of starvation shortly thereafter because the famine in the town of Zarephath was so terrible that there was no natural way she could get anymore food.

Unexpectedly, Elijah, a man unknown to her, came her way and asked for a drink of her water and a piece of her last meal and told her the reward that would come to her by doing so – the flour and oil would last and provide plenty for her and her family to eat well beyond the end of the famine. Even with doubt, a promise not yet experienced, and faced with certain death from starvation a few days earlier than otherwise expected, she gave him a piece of her meal.

Within her heart she believed the hope Elijah had spoken more than the reality she faced. Her family was saved from certain death and extremely blessed as a result of her obedience to the voice of the Lord spoken by His prophet in that the flour and oil never failed to flow until the famine was fully gone out of the land.

Similarly, a man was threatening to take two sons of a widow as indentured servants so that he would be repaid the loans he extended to their deceased father. The mother asked Elisha to intervene to help her family overcome the financial turmoil and bad economy these debts brought upon them. He asked what resources she had available to help overcome the situation and she said nothing but a flask of olive oil.

Elisha told her to borrow as many pots from neighbors as she could and start pouring the little jar over each pot until each one is filled and that she would be able to sell the oil and pay off the family debts and live comfortably. She believed and acted upon the word of the Lord spoken by His prophet and it brought financial freedom.

In the same way, God gives you resources (assets, belongings, gifts, and abilities) that ensure you have more than enough to make life fulfilling and successful in good times, bad times, and famine. The resource may be greatly under-utilized by you up to this point and thus may seem inconsequential like an overabundance of tools, ability to organize belongings, or great carpentry skill. However, I assure you the skill will be life preserving, income-generating, and profitable as the Holy Spirit and men and women that intimately know Him instruct you how to employ your resources.

When you listen to the voice of the Lord and take action upon His instruction you will give greatly to support ministry work and make it a priority to pay off accumulated debt so you can give even more to the things that please God’s heart. Other people may be scrimping due to over-indebtedness and catastrophe, but that will not be your lot in life. Instead you will be serving other people in a God honoring manner, fulfilling your purpose, reaching your destiny, and showing others how to humbly enjoy the creature comforts God so richly provides.

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1Kings 17:9-16, 2Kings 4:1-7, Malachi 3:10, Luke 6:38

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MoneyWalk 186: Is Jesus Lord Of Your Money?

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Some people don’t realize that they’ve given lordship of their lives over to people and things other than Jesus Christ. Many have accepted the notion that Jesus is LORD of their lives because they call themselves Christian.

The Lord is not impressed when you or other people call you a Christian, a pastor, or a member of a local church. Neither is He impressed when you have a multi-million dollar income, millions of dollars in assets, a naturally powerful position among men, a six figure income, a low-income, or poverty status in society.

Instead, He’s hurt and very sad about you no matter your income and asset level when you do not use money to support His will in the earth. His will is that He be lifted up so that men can be drawn to Him in relationship in order to be saved, inherit eternal life, and partner with Him and His Church to fulfill the Great Commission through employing the purpose and calling He gave them in this life on earth.

Remember, the Lord was angry and called the rich man a fool when he built bigger barns for himself instead of giving proportionately to support kingdom work in the earth. Also, the young rich ruler had riches and position in life and yet Jesus was sad because he wouldn’t allow Jesus to be LORD of the life and money to which he had been entrusted. The young rich ruler walked away with great sorrow, even though he followed many of the other commandments from his youth on. He did not truly love the Lord with all his heart, mind, soul, and strength nor then did he love his neighbor as himself. He had a form of godliness, but denied the power thereof.

In Contrast, Jesus was pleased with the heart and actions of the low-income widow because she gave her few pennies to support God’s work and He was pleased with those who where rich that lent themselves to good works, helping the poor, and other service to which they were gifted by God and trained to use. Whether you are rich or poor make the Lord the priority of your life and desire to honor His will before all others when you earn or receive income and inheritances and as you accumulate more valuable assets.

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Proverbs 13:7, Mark 10:17-23, Luke 12:16-21, Acts 4:33-35, 1Timothy 6:17-19

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MoneyWalk 185: Setting Vision And Goals

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

You should continually ask God and take inventory of you skills and abilities in order to find out the type of work God wants you to do in the Earth while recognizing that the form of the work may change from time to time and that you will have to do some types of work along the way that will seem totally unrelated but will actually add up to the kind of experience, competence, skill, and attitude necessary to ultimately fill the position / place that God has for you. The situation will be akin to the Karate Kid beginning his training to be a Karate champion by washing and waxing a car and doing many other things along the way that he felt were totally unrelated. They ultimately led to him being the Karate champion.

Next, you should write your vision down on paper or computer file along with goals you will pursue to accomplish it. Your vision might be something like hosting a weekly radio program in your local area or to write a book to teach millions of people the fundamentals of proper money management.

Your goals should be specific things, that you perceive will help fulfill your vision, and that you will work to accomplish by a specific time (six months, one-year, etc.) like writing the outline that the programs will follow or contacting two radio station programming managers each week to motivate them to allow you to host the program or writing one book topic each week.

Your vision and goals (whether business, employment, political, or ministerial) should ensure that you’re able to use your work to glorify God, lead people to Christ, and help them establish greater relationship with Him. It will take action to accomplish the goals and to fulfill the ultimate aim of the vision.

Every goal may not come exactly as you outline it and you may need to tweak the vision along the way as you receive greater insight from the Lord. So, you will need to be flexible to God opening doors and showing you other ways to accomplish His plan. Upon His guidance and to overcome roadblocks to your destiny, you must be willing to take steps other than what you envisioned in the past. With the Holy Spirit’s power working in you, vision and goals and faithful action to achieve them will help you persevere through every obstacle to be who God created you to be.

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Psalm 89:19, Proverbs 29:18, Habakkuk 2:2-4, Acts 10:19-20, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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