MoneyWalk 218: No Matter What Serve the Lord

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

We are daily presented with situations in which we must determine who we will serve. Either we'll serve the purposes of God almighty or we'll serve satan. Many who serve satan don't believe they serve him. In fact, a good number of people think satan is a figment of man's imagination. Others think they're doing what they want. And others just don't believe God exists or that He has any specific requirements for how they should live and determine activities to engage.

Satan seeks to continually muddy the water by encouraging you to engage such beliefs because they help keep as many people as possible from having relationship with the LORD God by accepting Him as Savior and being obedient to His commands. Satan also wants to keep you from living the eternal life that God provides through Jesus Christ and he wants you to believe that there is no consequence to living in a worldly manner through satisfying your own lusts.

Per biblical warning, living according to the lust of the eyes, the flesh, and the pride of life has ushered many unrepentant people to hell. Today, many more people appear to be considering as moral lifestyles and activities that scripture says are immoral. They have moved into the lifestyle God said depraved man (those without Christ) would continually move – calling His truth a lie while heaping teachers unto themselves that tell them God could not have actually meant what He so clearly said through the scriptures.

The false belief systems that satan will continue to encourage will affect your salvation, sanctification, and finances if you allow it to influence you. When you buy into them you won't manage your life and money in a way that glorifies God, you won't give to support of ministry that works to add people to the ranks of the saved, and you won't support preaching / teaching that helps mature people to be sanctified mature members of the body of Christ.

No matter what serve the Lord, because you understand satan’s plan to influence you to be unfruitful and have you inherit the home of the damned (hell) in which he and the fallen angels will ultimately dwell for eternity. God is faithful no matter the situations you face and has only the best in mind for your life and eternity. Believing His design and taking action in the ways He instructed will bring everything you need to be productive and pleasing to Him and all others who have sound minds.

Please pray for this ministry and email any questions. May God bless you richly as you follow His plan!!!

Job 2:9-10, Proverbs 23:17-19, 2Timothy 2:3-4, Revelations 12:10-11

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MoneyWalk 217: Net Worth

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

The Lord does not measure you by the abundance of things or material riches you possess. He does not love a person more who has obtained more money or material things. However, He does require you to be good stewards over what He has given you. This requires that you use your God-given talent and perform a trade working for yourself or someone else (attorney, garbage collector, accountant, etc.).

Do not bury your talents and gifting in the ground or think you are someone because your net worth exceeds a certain dollar amount enabling you to shower yourself with opulence. Rather cultivate your gifts and leverage your financial net worth to help you be a blessing to other people.

Recognize that financial net worth has limited importance and it is only a great thing when it is leveraged to help spread the gospel throughout the earth and disciple people in Christ’s way. The scriptures identify godly men and women who accumulated great fortunes and ungodly men and women who accumulated great fortunes. God is not displeased at everyone who is rich or has increased net worth. He is displeased only when your accumulation has been obtained using wicked means to gain an end and/or when you are not rich in giving to support the work of Christ.

Since He allows different portions to be provided to different people, He is not looking for everyone to wind up with the same net worth rather He is looking for each of us to utilize biblical money management principles to order our financial steps throughout life. When we do this, we will bear much fruit, give abundantly, and grow our net-worth (accumulate assets) in a way that pleases the Father.

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Genesis 13:5-6, Job 1:1-3, 42:10-12, Acts 4:34-37, James 5:1-6

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MoneyWalk 216: Budget Your Way To Blessings

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

A budget is necessary for successfully managing your finances. Every person should have a budget to ensure that they're getting the most out of their income. It helps you see exactly how much comes in versus how much goes out over short and long range periods, so you don't blindly float along buying things that cause your expenses to creep above your income.

Without a budget you will likely have no ability to appropriately save and invest for the future. Many people attempt to budget in their heads, but it causes them to fall short on bill payments and other operations of daily life that should be greater priority. Writing out a budget would have forewarned them of the situation and let them know that negative consequences would eventually follow if they do not correct the situation.

A good book that contains budgeting illustrations along with paper and pencil are all that's needed to start writing your budget. A computer spreadsheet or budgeting software makes the job even easier. After your initial few hours setting up your budget, you'll only need about an hour each week to maintain it and revise it if necessary due to changes in income and necessary expenses.

My recommendation is that you pay the tithe as the first line item expense. Then, find out how the rest of your budget works out – do you have a surplus during the pay period or do you have a deficit. Now, look at your expense categories to identify the amounts that can reasonably be eliminated or reduced, so that the extra money can be put toward a $1,000 emergency fund and then repayment of consumer debt (credit cards, car loans, personal loans), especially if your budget showed a deficit. If it showed a surplus and you have consumer debt, use the surplus amount to pay off the consumer debt. Otherwise, use the surplus to build a $10,000 emergency fund and thereafter build it to six-months of expenses.

On average it takes people who are focused two to three years to pay off all their consumer debt, about six months thereafter to build the emergency fund to $10,000 to six-month worth of savings, and about seven years to pay off their mortgage even while putting the minimum amount of money in their 401k that enables them to get the company match. Over the years, budgeting your income and expenses will produce enormous blessings that in the past you never thought could be realized.

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Proverbs 13:22-23, 21:20, 27:23-24, Habakkuk 2:2-4, Luke 14:28-31, Romans13:7-8

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