MoneyWalk 322: Prosperity The LORD’s Way

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

If you want financial promotion that is pleasing to the LORD stop using investment methods, principles, and values that are not confirmed in the bible as trustworthy to prosper you, positively serve others, and please Him. Otherwise, you will be in bondage spiritually even if monetarily you have gained the whole world. Learn biblical financial principles, which work for everyone, and most importantly lead to heavenly blessings and secondarily to earthly blessings.

Educational degrees, human networks, political alliances, crime, books, magazines, and get rich quick television programs won’t bring the fulfillment you seek, nor will they produce peace and joy in your life. Unless the vast majority of people using these methods have relationship with Jesus Christ and seek guidance by the Holy Spirit with regard to good stewardship of their lives and money, our socio-economic system will result in more and more impoverished people in the face of a very small percentage that receive great benefit. God’s plan has always been that the whole nation will be blessed and receive a heavenly inheritance of His life and treasures, which is to also be experienced during our remaining time on earth for the fulfillment of His plan and our individual purposes.

This blessing and reward occurs and continues to gain momentum only when we turn to His way of living and managing our money. Everyone who chooses the opposite path, which is unbelief in the LORD Jesus and His ways, inherit the promise that one-day their riches will be given to the believer for the purpose of leading many people to Christ, discipling them, and giving Him glory eternally. Don’t spend time worrying about whether or not you will profit in your endeavors, prosper, and greatly enhance your finances and life. Instead, put away fear and walk in obedience to let the power of using biblical principles help you reach your God-desired prosperous destiny in this life.

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Deuteronomy 8:18-20, Psalms 37:4, Matthew 6:32-33, James 4:13-17

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MoneyWalk 321: Debt Will Drag You Down

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Many people look for blessings from the LORD yet they follow satan’s financial plan. Some are unaware that they’ve fallen into his plan because they don’t study scripture on a regular basis and thus don’t learn which principles are pleasing to God. Others know they’re violating God’s word, but overlook godly conviction and fall to temptation because satan’s path allows them to obtain the material things they want quicker and with little known sacrifice. They excuse their behavior by saying the rest of the world uses these methods.

Satan always wants you to see and mimic the few examples of people who appear to prosper using his plan, who refuse to use God’s principles and incur massive debt in order to get lots of stuff beyond their means and some who over leverage in their entrepreneurial endeavors. He wants your desire to be rich to ensnare you in his trap and cause you future pain and likely put your family and business in jeopardy of destruction, loss, repossession, bankruptcy, and foreclosure during poor economic cycles and /or times when your particular business hits a period of decreased revenue.

Understand that everyone’s life and business will be surrounded at times by economic downturns. Even some billionaires and multi-millionaires throughout history and businesses like Enron, WorldCom, Coldwater Creek, Sears, Kmart, GM, and many more experienced chilling effects of these happenings. Such facts should not lead you to fear doing what it takes to be a good steward, profit in your endeavors, and prosper overall because scripture lets believers know that the LORD did not impart to you a spirit of fear. Rather, upon you accepting Jesus Christ as Savior you were given a spirit of power, love, a sound mind, and self-control.

This will allow you to be a good steward of the many blessing He lavishes upon you in a way that brings great reward and helps spare you from devastating aspects of such cyclical occurrence. Often those that suffer the worst long term effects have continued to do what men often do (take on massive debt to try and get where they want to go) as opposed to what the LORD instructs us to do in managing money.

You put yourself in harms’ way when you ignore biblical instructions about budgeting, living within your means, debt avoidance, investing, and wealth building. Contrary to popular opinion it is possible to live this way and prosper and is the best way to do so. Otherwise, you’ll take on more debt than you can handle and may ultimately compromise your relationship with God, your family, and the Church by spending inordinate amounts of time doing things to keep up with the Joneses. This lifestyle will cause many hardships that will zap your peace, joy, and ability to fund Kingdom service. Remember, you are neither profitable nor prosperous even if you get rich on earth by forsaking godly purpose, principles, and / or relationships.

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Deuteronomy 28:42-45, Proverbs 22:7, Romans 13:8, James 4:3-4

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MoneyWalk 320: What is Money For?

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Money is a construct whereby people agree on a medium of exchange that allows each person to derive value for the use of time, talent, and/or creative abilities. It can be different in different nations and among different cultures. In this day and time it is usually a paper based system established by a particular nation as its government sanctioned medium of exchange for its people based on the value of its resources and economic output. Each one desires all other nations around the world to consider their medium an acceptable value for trade between them.

This certainly is not an all-inclusive description of money but no one needs to know the entire description or fully understand all its uniqueness and value in order to know that it is necessary for each person to have at least an adequate amount, manage it well, use it to do much good in the world, and prepare in order to have a greater ability to successfully navigate the unknowns in the future we all face on earth. We know we need it to purchase things from other people that are needed or desired (shelter, food, clothing, transportation, etc.) and to give to others in order to help serve people beyond our individual ability in ways that we consider to be good for our nation and mankind.

The biblical based mission for your life including money is to be the best steward you can be of everything the LORD allows to come into your hands in order to give Him glory by being the best witness to unbelievers and example for believers that you can possibly be. When Jesus Christ is the author and finisher of your faith you don't want anyone to perish, rather you want everyone to recognize he/she can inherit eternal life, which requires that he/she accept Jesus Christ as Savior and LORD in order to obtain peace with Him.

The desire for greater intimacy with Him should lead you to better stewardship. This begins the process of soul renovation where you put off worldly ways you learned to do things and step by step learn to live by His standards. The Holy Spirit will lead you to tithe and give faithfully and abundantly to your local church in order to help evangelize and disciple as many people as possible to help them bypass the Great White Throne judgment against all who disbelieve. He will also instruct you to live on less than your net income, work to become debt free, and utilize investment methods within godly boundaries that help you accumulate wealth via the investment of income from your jobs, careers, businesses, and other employments. These are necessary components to help you properly utilize money in order to prosper to fulfill the mission that Christ gave the Church and you.

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Deuteronomy 8:18-20, Isaiah 43:4-7, Matthew 16:15-20, 2Timothy 1:8-18

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MoneyWalk 319: Get The Rest You Need

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Take the rest that Jesus gives by doing what is necessary to be intimate with Him and use the standards He established to govern your life: accepting Him as Savior & LORD, daily reading / studying the bible, praising / worshipping / praying to Him, fellowshipping weekly with like-minded believers, and exhibiting good stewardship with the income and assets He allows to come into your hands.

With regard to the latter character building tool you should tithe and give, save an emergency fund, and develop a plan to pay off all your debt and live a debt free lifestyle. Thereafter, you should use disposable income to give abundantly and grow the money that remains under your control. Total stock market, no load, low expense index mutual funds with a great long term history that mimics the 11% or so that the market has returned over the long haul will be a great starting point from which you can get more educated on acceptable risk and reward and investment products that fit the tolerance you need to build wealth that will be a great asset for you, your family, church, and other people as you move into the future.

Encumbering yourself with debt disappoints you and wears you out, because you can never really achieve a level of prosperity that’s secure. The material things you’ve obtained are subject to be taken when you can no longer pay the bills that are due. This could occur due to job loss, business revenue reductions, increased expenses, economic downturn, or catastrophes. Repossession occurs when you owe everybody and can no longer pay on the loans. This does not occur when you have no debt outstanding.

The pressure to compare yourself with others leads you to get more expensive homes, cars, clothes, and jewelry than other people so you can look like you're prospering. This misuse of resources eliminates your ability to pursue the will of God through serving and giving because you’ll become a slave to worldly ambitions and desires that focus more upon self than upon evangelizing and making disciples in order that God receive glory while you’re on earth. Also, using worldly, respecter of persons success models to determine with whom you’ll have relationship drains you of the opportunity to lead others to God while giving into their lives to help them become all that God wants them to be.

Never base your worth on your view of other people’s incomes, assets, position, power, or fame in comparison to your position. As a believer your worth is in Jesus Christ and no matter what the surface looks look right now you have all His treasures and abilities necessary to be fruitful and successful in the endeavors, employments, and services for which He made you and is calling you. Greater success, fruitfulness, and prosperity are sure to come as you maintain your focus on Him. This allows you to truly enter His rest no matter what others are doing and no matter where you are in life.

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Psalms 116:6-9, Jeremiah 6:16, Matthew 11:28-30, Hebrews 4:1-4

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