MoneyWalk 369: Wealth That Pleases God

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

The LORD’s will is that you would be wealthy as a result of pursuing intimacy with Him and employing biblical principles in your life, including the arenas that need money and resources to navigate. The only way to avoid the many potholes and consequences that come from pursuing more money and resources using any other way requires that you abstain from fleshly lusts and wrong-headed pursuits in order to allow God to bring you into a unique wealthy place of business and ministry where godliness with contentment is great gain. Otherwise, your life will be an eternal failure even when you seem successful on earth.

The pursuit of riches should never be the primary motivation of any believer. But riches often come and are used in the proper manner when a person sets a goal to become more productive and fruitful in his / her work and entrepreneurial endeavors within the framework of an intimate, dynamic, and disciplined relationship with Christ to help him / her fulfill God-given purpose. Make sure, no matter your opportunities or pursuits, that you always maintain reasonable time for daily devotion including thanksgiving, praise, worship, prayer, bible study, weekly fellowship with the saints, and ministry to your family and other people. When these spiritual disciplines take priority in your life, you will not pursue money and material things at all costs rather you will do so within the framework of biblical instruction and the LORD’s specific guidance to you, thereby eliminating harmful effects of anti-Christ-like behavior like deceiving or cheating others to profit your business or ministry.

In this way, you will live out your heritage as a priest and king of the Most High God by exhibiting chaste, godly, and generous conduct that overcomes evil words that some people will speak against you, especially as you prosper more and more. In fact, the example of your life as well as the natural and supernatural wealth it produces will be used by the Holy Spirit to win many people to Christ. He will be pleased with your faith-based efforts and the wealthy place to which He guides you.

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Psalm 139:13-18, Matthew 25:14-15, 1Peter 2:9-12, Revelations 1:5-6

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MoneyWalk 367: From Debt To Poverty

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

The title doesn’t sound good does it. I know you would much rather see “From Rags to Riches.” However, getting things you want via borrowed money puts your life under the heading “From Debt To Poverty.” Only when you stop living on this wealth stealing debt-laden merry-go-round will you bring into your domain godly purpose, fruitfulness, and success that comes from employing good stewardship practices confirmed in scripture for the good of man, corporately and individually. This then puts you on the pathway to experiencing firsthand the rags to riches testimony that truly glorifies the LORD and blesses you, your family, and the many others your life is meant to bring goodwill.

Every decade credit card debt increase astronomically. The average person is carrying tens of thousands of dollars in car, recreational vehicle, furniture, appliance, electronics, jewelry, and retail store debt. Also, many people are carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars in home mortgages. Amounts that also greatly increase every decade. The numbers far exceed the level that inflation alone would have had on house prices. Regardless of income and affordability, they are simply choosing to buy larger homes with far more amenities even when family sizes and sometimes paychecks are getting smaller. Many people have also been convinced by the banking system to continual tap supposed equity out of their house to purchase consumer goods that depreciate. These practices leave them with very little to draw from when problems arise that requires substantial savings and investments to resolve.

Spending borrowed money (even when it’s called home equity) to obtain consumer goods leads people to neglect giving to spread the gospel, make disciples of men, and support vital need-meeting ministry. It also leads them to neglect saving for emergencies and future growth through investing. In essence, being a debtor and continuing to take out more and more loans is a major spiritual vehicle that transports people into a life of spiritual and natural poverty no matter what they currently look like on the outside. When you have not built substantial savings and investments, all it takes for you to land in such poverty is a bout of unemployment or business sales falling off for months or years for you to lose many if not all the things you thought you owned and for you to forsake giving to the LORD’s work because you feel you must do all you can to pay the creditor you can see instead of the God who is unseen with natural eyes.

You should avoid debt like the plague it is. Do not use it as the means for obtaining consumer goods, pursuing / maintaining entrepreneurial endeavors, schooling, or anything. Thus, when trials come, as they periodically will, the things in your possession will not be subject to repossession and foreclosure because you will truly own them and you will not become bankrupt. A debt-free lifestyle, which is the LORD’s design for your life, will help you overcome worldly temptations and avoid the spiritual and natural poverty satan is step-by-step trying to lead you into in order to destroy your future and your ability to be used greatly by God.

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Genesis 12:1-3, Deuteronomy 28:43-48, Proverbs 22:6-7, Romans 13:6-8, James 4:2-8

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MoneyWalk 368: The Heart That Opens Heaven’s Windows

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Faith in the LORD and wanting to be of service in planting His kingdom seed in the hearts of men, women, and children all over the world and throughout time should lead you to give a tenth of your income and a free-will offering to the Church for the work of ministry. The tenth is the tithe and an offering is a free-will gift of an amount you choose. Not as an obligation, rather as a representation of the kind of great faith exhibited by the one whom the LORD identified as Abraham, father of our faith. Without any contradiction he gave a tenth unto Melchizedek the priest who without beginning or end is likened unto Jesus Christ. We know Jesus Christ as the only one of whom it is witnessed that He lives and receives the tithe through the loins of His earthly priests.

Wonderful trust is displayed by the father of your faith tithing of his increase long before the Law was given to Israel. Jesus said we should display justice, mercy, and faith and not leave tithing undone. The book of Hebrews admonishes, encourages, and instructs every Christian throughout the ages and explains that men collect believer’s tithes on earth but Jesus Christ receives them in Heaven.

The discipline of tithing helps us trust the LORD using His far better spiritual insight, allows the gospel to be preached and all people discipled by us and other ministers, aligns the spiritual atmosphere to bring about our betterment spiritually and financially, encourages us to utilize the Holy Spirit’s empowerment living inside us, and glorifies our LORD during and beyond our years. Knowing that the New Covenant is far better than the Old Covenant motivates Christians to engage tithing and offering to spread the gospel far more than our desire to obtain things we want and even seem to need. Yet it also makes possible many opportunities to receive far more than needed without having to make a priority of obtaining such things. Scripture expressly affirms that one who sows sparingly shall reap sparingly whereas one who sows abundantly shall reap abundantly.

Tithing and offering represent a principle of proper conduct for everyone who confesses to know Jesus Christ. They should be given consistently in order to produce and support ministry throughout the earth. The prosperity of all faithful tithers is seen by helping thousands of people develop a relationship with Christ while continually being able to plant more resources toward this mission. This moves God’s heart to pour out earthly treasures upon you as well so that being blessed you can continue to be a blessing to even more people. However, your failure to follow God’s instructions will likely cause your debt to rise, separate you from wealth, hamper your ability to simultaneously save and invest, and hamper the life and good works Christ wants you to do.

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Genesis 14:20, Malachi 3:8-12, Matthew 23:23, Luke 12:13-21, Hebrews 7:4-8

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MoneyWalk 366: Contentment Is Not Laziness

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Some believers have been fooled into thinking the LORD does not want His people to prosper financially and thus poverty becomes to them a badge of holiness. Automatic ridicule is then aimed at anyone who obtains a level of wealth above the amount they believe is reasonable. They believe those folks must have violated biblical principle because it does not lead people to high incomes or wealth accumulation.

This could not be further from the truth in scripture. God has spoken words of spiritual, emotional, physical, and financial prosperity for all His people and makes it available to each according to His will and calling for their lives. He simply does not want our pursuits to be based on the love of money. He wants each one to pursue the area of longing He put in his / her heart while realizing that He will make pathways, open, and close doors that bring him / her necessary income to live and live more abundantly as we engage good stewardship practices identified in the Word.

Simply being rich does not mean that a person has done anything to please God, but it is not automatically an identifier that he / she has not walked in a way that pleases Him. No matter how you came into wealth, right now He wants you to be as much about leading people to Him and letting your life express His glory and show that you are His friend as did Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Ruth, King David, Isaiah, Esther, Joseph of Arimathea, Barnabas, Lydia, and the rich who were doing good works like those expressed in 1 Timothy chapter 6.

An import message He wants us to hide in our hearts, whether rich or poor, is that we should not be lazy because faith without works is dead and he who does not properly care for his household is worse than an infidel. Also, we should be content with our current state in terms of not complaining about it, yet faithfully working as unto the LORD to improve ourselves so we may also improve upon our ability to give and expand the Kingdom of God in Christ in the hearts of people on earth. For if they leave this life without Him as Savior & LORD there is no hope of eternal paradise for them and only a reality of outer darkness and torment forever.

When a bigger house, car, or better job is in your future, he simply wants it pursued and accomplished in a way that does not lead you away from intimacy with Him, that does not reduce your ability to tithe and give to your local church and other worthwhile ministry, and that is in line with your ability to handle the purchase of these things via net income, savings, and investments available to you without you lacking resources to continually and faithfully take care of obligations you committed yourself to and without winding up house, car, and relationship poor. Contentment comes into play in a great way in this regard. If you do not utilize it and recognize the LORD planted it in your spirit and wants it exercised in your actions, then you will fall for the worlds tools for bringing you down financially so you are unable to properly care for your calling, family, and Church. Massive marketing and advertisement that appeals to your flesh to get you to quickly pursue your desires is a major tool satan uses to get you to override contentment. Yet, all the things marketed are not evil or opposed by God. Those intended for you simply have a due time attached to them that meets the above noted specifications.

The LORD simply wants you to be content in His current provision for you while being a doer of the Word who lives out biblical principles that help you mature to be a son who can handle more of the treasures of His kingdom while you’re on earth. He doesn’t want you measuring your prosperity by the trinkets that other people possess nor sitting around, doing nothing, waiting for your death or His return. He wants to find you busy doing work that produces reasonable income and provides service He will be proud of because it positively affects family, Church, friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc.) and that allows you extra by which to prosper even more as the future moves forward. When you are willing and obedient you will have abundance of the land at your disposal.

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Luke 12:15, 1Timothy 6:6-11, Hebrews 10:35-36, Revelation 3:17-20

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