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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