MoneyWalk 204: God Rewards His Shepherds and Good Stewards

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

The Lord designed His body, the church, to operate and fulfill its mandated mission using under-shepherds to lead, guide, teach, and provide spiritual protection to His flock. He is the Good Shepherd and they serve under Him in a manner that pursues His will for themselves and the flock, not their own will. If any leader be found to not serve the purposes of Christ, hold dear the things that He holds dear, and act and live in the manner in which Christ and the early apostles did, then he is not a shepherd under Christ and you should find yourself a true church to attend lead by shepherds that follow Christ and that ask only of you that you follow them as they follow Christ.

To stay in an ungodly fellowship holding that the person at the top is a leader is not saying much, for satan is a leader. Yet, we know he leads people into sin, destruction, and damnation. As a child of God you desire no communion with such rebellion. Each individual Christ follower must study the Word to understand what it directs, then ask the Holy Spirit for guidance, and thank Him for the empowerment to fulfill the instruction.

God designed and laid out instructions so that in true churches lead by true under-shepherds a portion of the corporate tithe would provide not only for needs of the church administration and carrying out its part in the gospel mission but would also provide income for those who serve as under-shepherds, giving their time to prayer and the study of God’s word so they can effectively lead, guide, teach, and spiritually protect His people that He allows to follow them.

Don’t fail to tithe because you don’t like that your shepherd’s are paid, paid a certain amount, or because you do not agree with particular projects / ministries they have undertaken. This will block the blessings and rewards God has in store for you. Rather, tithe unto God and let Him handle ministerial pay details in the manner He chooses through the people He allowed to be placed in eldership over that congregation. You should simply seek to be a tither and an abundant giver that joins with a community of believers in which you discern and see evidence that the fruit matches the type scriptures shows is produced by Christ’s body. As a result, you will reap abundantly from the seeds you have sown.

Look for a church where under-shepherds serve members in the ways that God identified as spiritual, practical, and profitable. Under-shepherds being servant leaders who disassociate with those who take advantage of other people for filthy gain works hand-in-hand with God’s desire for you to build wealth because it is improbable that you will build wealth when you allow anyone to suck up for himself every bit of money and resource you receive.

Thus, under-shepherds should always seek the best advantage for the sheep (members of the body of Christ) according to the instruction of the Word and the parameters of blessing and reward that God put His stamp on in scripture. In this way, both the under-shepherd and the sheep will be abundantly blessed. This same instruction applies when teaching people how to be good stewards to help finance ministry goals and maintenance of the Church as an organism and organization in the earth.

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Numbers 18:21, John 10:7-15, Acts 4:36, 2Corinthians 9:6-8, 1Peter 5:1-4

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MoneyWalk 203: Don’t Let Satan Lead You?

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Various influential people are saying, in a workplace, a person should never talk to anyone else about his / her religious beliefs. Other voices erroneously state that the U.S. Constitution forbids talking with others about religion or trying to get them to see the benefit of your religious belief. Of course, they do not and cannot provide reasons for such beliefs that are more important than the Lord’s instruction to go into all the world to evangelize and disciple unbelievers. Nor do they provide language from the constitution that forbids such activity so hearers can measure whether such statements are true or not. They simply expect readers to accept their opinions as truth and the etiquette that should be adhered to.

I understand why people would have this mindset and opinion when they choose to disbelieve the bible. However, even when a law enacted by humans forbids religious speech and activities, Christians have no biblical or spiritual basis to stop activities that are directly commanded by our LORD and Savior. No matter what the laws say and the consequences for violating it, we evangelize unbelievers and build up believers with the Word because we know it is God’s will for every person ever created to hear the gospel and have an opportunity to respond to it in saving faith.

Also, it’s best for everyone and the temporal world we live in for each person to individually listen to the Holy Spirit’s guidance so he / she will live in a sanctified manner (eliminating attitudes / actions that displease God and that fail to show His love to our neighbors). A sanctified lifestyle and interaction with other human beings truly makes the world a better place to live. The problem we have today is more and more people doing the opposite and following their own human will while thinking that our world, nation, and lives will get better, more moral, and more blessed. Of course, the record shows that is not what transpires when you forsake the Lord and His instruction.

God told us that people would be offended by the truth of the gospel. It’s eternally important that we not let individuals or world systems control the Great Commission, our lives, business, or financial stewardship. Otherwise, they cut off our gospel witness in the earth. If we allow people’s opinions and ungodly laws to control us, we’ll fail to give God glory and will receive no eternal reward for our work. I’d rather disobey man, when necessary, in order to fully obey God because I know it’s best for everyone including my accusers, oppressors, and persecutors!

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Mark 8:33-38, Luke 7:20-22, Luke 12:20-21, Acts 4:13-30, Acts 5:40-42, 2Timothy 4:1-8

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Money Walk 202: Be Who The Lord Wants You To Be

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Either you’ll be ruled by what man thinks you should be and do and say or you’ll be ruled by what the Holy Spirit leads you to be and do and say. Some people have the cat by the tail believing that man-made laws, traditions, and philosophies must rule how you evangelize the unsaved and disciple believers. Some follow this prescription out of fear.

Such ungodly attitudes make them speechless about the gospel and of little use to God in their communities. Instead of affecting the world for Christ, they follow the world into ungodly passions and pursuits. The same attitudes and fears will play out in the management of your money and resources if you let them. You must resolve to do what you know God has directed by the bible and the Spirit whether men, so-called experts, or religious leaders agree with your method of pleasing God.

Satan will try to use worldly people and some misinformed people in the church to stop your ministry service. You must resolve to never let the enemy or people stop you from being who the Lord wants you to be and doing what He directs you to do no matter how much you love them or how emotional, educated, or logical their appeal seem to be.

The bible instructs you to live holy. You do this by praying His will for your life, fellowshipping with God-fearing believers, being willing to suffer for Christ’s sake, eliminating the love of money / materialism from your life, tithing and giving offerings, budgeting your income, know the state of your income and expenses, saving and investing to build wealth so that you are blessed to be the blessing the Lord wants you to be while on earth. Expeditiously adhere to these instructions so you steer clear of friendship with the world and enmity with God.

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Isaiah 43:18-28, Jonah 2:8-10, John 15:14-16, Ephesians 5:8-10, James 4:4-8

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MoneyWalk 201: Wrestling Brings Success

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In life, we must deal with desire versus need. In some instances, this can be equated with living in the spirit versus the flesh. In the spirit, we walk according to the Holy Spirit’s direction doing things that are fruitful throughout eternity. In the flesh, we walk according to the dictates of human reasoning with an appetite for ungodly pleasures and desires that disregard God’s will for our lives.

We all battle with walking in the spirit versus the flesh in the financial area as well. While working to put yourself in the position that God wants you to be in, you’ll battle the demons of desire that will attempt to shake your consistency and faithfulness in reducing current debts and not creating new ones.

It may be your flesh or demonic spirits or both attempting to influence you to purchase items that you should not purchase in your current financial condition. Either way, continuing to purchase such material goods and services when you have been a poor steward of the income God has allowed to come into your life will move you further away from the will of God. It will reduce your giving to spread the gospel and will bring harsh consequences to your life such as continuing financial stress and pressure, negating your ability to accumulate valuable assets, and build wealth, and pushing you into foreclosure, repossession, and bankruptcy.

Crucify the lusts of the flesh, bind and cast out demonic influence, be faithful to use biblical money management principles and methods that are pleasing to God and truly helpful to you such as tithing, budgeting, debt elimination, saving, investing, and diversification of assets. When you understand that you wrestle against false prophets that spew out financial advice that is opposite God’s word on good stewardship then you have a chance of not only prospering in all you do but also going about it in a God-honoring and God-pleasing manner.

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Ephesians 6:10-20, Jeremiah 28:15-17, Ezekiel 13:22-23, Luke 20:45-47, Hebrews 2:1-3, 2Peter 2

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