MoneyWalk 343: Envision God’s Blessing

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Some people think bargain shopping is beneath the privilege God wants for their life. So, they enter stores with the mindset they’re going to pay whatever price is requested for merchandise they desire. They don’t recognize that clearance racks sometime have items they need or want at drastically reduced prices. The merchandise being of as much quality as if they had paid the higher price. It could be that the LORD moved store personnel to put that item on the sale or clearance rack because He knew you were going there today.

No wrong is done paying higher prices for merchandise, unless your budget is simply in no shape to do so or for that matter to purchase it at all. However, before making a purchase many people fail to wait the short period of time until merchandise is marked down because in their minds paying a higher price for merchandise is prestigious and a display of their financial wherewithal. Their insecurity or desire to be somebody special in the eyes of others pushes them to immediately obtain the latest advertised designer brand item no matter the cost.

We should always be first in line and be willing to pay any price to enter the presence of God because we will receive many spiritual and natural blessings & rewards. However, we should restrain our impulse to be first in line and pay the highest price for material items until after we’ve measured our ability to handle the purchase without debt, are able to maintain an adequate emergency fund, savings, and investments and have put the proposed purchase before the LORD and felt His peace about it. Otherwise, we may find we are worshipping the created instead of the Creator. This type of worship lead us out of the presence of God because it’s focused on pleasing self and it often causes addiction to credit instruments and debt and leads to lack of adequate emergency funds, savings, and investments.

I would much rather spend less and still have quality material items and have more money to plant via the Church to evangelize and make disciples of other people, than to try to impress myself or others with how much money I can spend on material things. Therefore, I peruse clearance and sale racks before going to the regular price aisles. I look for bargains to ensure I’m not letting satan and the world get more of the money the LORD entrusted to me than is absolutely necessary. For if I do, money that could have been given for the LORD’s purposes will often be spent by sinners who received it to fill their ungodly appetites. Being a good steward doesn’t mean you live like a pauper. Rather, it motivates you to manage money expediently so as much as possible goes to kingdom work and quality endeavors.

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Proverbs 10:22, Matthew 25:24-28, Mark 11:1-7, Luke 16:8-10

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MoneyWalk 342: Giving Leads To Receiving More

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

People all around you are reaping the natural results of their spiritual actions. They sow sparingly, so they reap sparingly and feel the pain of this condition throughout their lives until their actions change to show they trust God’s promise. Then, they start to reap abundantly because they start to sow abundantly into His plan for saving and making disciples of people worldwide.

Jesus created us to give abundantly. When we let Him teach and encourage us a mature understanding is develop of how giving helps other people and ourselves. He doesn’t want us to compare how many dollars we give against the giving of other people in the church. He simply wants each person to consistently sow an abundant proportion of the income He entrusts to him / her. That’s why Jesus considered the widow's two pennies to be a greater offering than the amounts given by people who had far more and gave far more than she did. God's financial plan works different than our human minds comprehend.

It takes faith to please God in giving and every other area of life. We must believe that He is and is a rewarder of those that diligently seek to do His will. Tithing and offering were given to you as a road map for the financial portion of life no matter your income level. Your financial pain will be eliminated and you will begin to receive as God promised when you love Him enough to keep these commands. Through this practice He makes for you a place of great thanksgiving, praise, worship, blessing, reward, prosperity, profit, and success that also serves as a help, blessing and example to many other people to encourage them to step into the stream and become a like conduit.

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Proverbs 11:24-25, Luke 6:38, 2Corinthians 9:6, Philippians 4:15-17

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MoneyWalk 341: Cosigning For Others’ Debts Will Cost You Dearly

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Study the scriptures to learn good stewardship over money, for God has entrusted you with that responsibility. If you do not regard His authority and accountability to Him, the devil will tempt you with ungodly desires (lust of eyes, flesh, and pride) to engage unreasonable spending, borrowing, and cosigning to motivate you to squander it.

The devil and his minions do not want you abundantly blessed for giving and serving to fulfill the Great Commission. He wants to cause God great heartache by leading you and other people into a lifestyle that does not make intimacy with and salvation in Jesus the focal point. They want you to experience eternal damnation, which is their ultimate destiny. Also, they want you to experience lack of godly purpose, vision, and mission and lack of money or an insatiable desire to spend it on things that do not glorify the LORD and help other people find Him, which is everyone’s most important need.

One method the devil uses to make you ineffective in living this victory is to convince you to co-sign a debt for someone by allowing him to use your credit card to purchase merchandise and/or by pledging to pay a note if he's unable to. In most instances, you’ll have to pay out money on his behalf and ruin your credit while the borrower continues to be irresponsible and impatient in his financial dealings. When you cosign, you are exhibiting poor stewardship by allowing the devil to unnecessarily remove assets or future income from your resource pool that should be used to fund the preaching of the gospel to those who need it at home and abroad and to care for the true needs of others in a way that puts neither of you in financial bondage.

Jesus Christ paved the way for you to defeat the devil’s plan and bring abundance into your life and others. Be guided by His Spirit to employ biblical lifestyle and financial principles, including refusing to cosign for debt. His resurrection obtained eternal victory over the devil for everyone that walks in the Spirit. The question is, will you join with Christ to live by His will now and throughout eternity?

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Proverbs 11:15, 17:18, 20:16, Romans 13:8, Ephesians 5:15, 1Timothy 6:9-10

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