MoneyWalk 373: Watch Out

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Do not allow yourself to become a victim of predatory financial schemes, con men, and those who perpetrate such wicked acts. Rather, be a conqueror who uses godly wisdom to walk in victory by refusing loans and get-rich quick scenarios and focusing all your brain power and money handling energies on being debt-free in a responsible way as quickly as possible and by refusing to engage schemes where people approach you about investing money to tempt you to pursue a return that is higher than the market usually and consistently provides.

Many people are trapped by the nice, friendly, well-dressed, and/or well-spoken perpetrators. Some are even entrapped by those who make them feel guilty about returns they supposedly didn’t get in the past because of their fear of investing. Many now play a mind game with senior citizens by making them fearful of supposed things to come that they will want money to take care of or they play into a temptation of greed that lurks in the inner-man that somehow believes the perpetrators can deliver the jackpot they always wanted, even during a time in life where that really should not be the most important thing to focus on.

You are primed to be tempted by such schemes and perpetrators when you don’t learn and apply biblical principles in your life, you do not refuse to be pulled in by promises of huge short-term returns on savings and investments, you do not refuse high interest loans, you do not budget and consult your asset picture to know exactly what amount of investment you can afford and the timing at which you could make such an investment, and when you don’t crucify your soulish lusts by refusing to love your home, money, and material things more than the LORD’s call on your life and His plan and purpose(s) for entrusting you with money and wealth.

When you’re ignorant of satan’s tactics you will fall prey to him and the hurt they cause. So, search the bible to identify these tactics and ask the Holy Spirit to help you understand all the ways they will be manifested if you are not wise in avoiding them. Predatory lending is one such tactic. Lenders who design these schemes get you hooked into applying for loans that charge very high interest and closing costs. They ethically defraud others by providing loans an applicant realistically cannot pay on his/her income or with his/her irresponsible money management style. Some are not interested in your ability to make the monthly payments based on your income and debt picture, rather they intend to put you in a position where they can repossess your home, car, or other major item and move the item onto many other people to whom they can do the same thing. Thus, making a profit as long as they can while putting the unwitting borrowers in even poorer financial shape.

There is a reason why the bible, God’s instruction manual that leads to blessing when we obey and to negative consequences when we rebel, tells you that He desires and empowers His people to refuse to be in debt, that the borrower is a slave to the lender, and that you should owe no one anything but love. You do best to seek Him in thanksgiving, praise, worship, prayer, regular bible reading, and consistent regular attendance at Church with other believers so you can be introduced to principles and activities that bless you and help fortify you to avoid those beliefs and actions that bring curses upon your life spiritually, naturally, eternally, and on earth.

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Deuteronomy 28:12, Proverbs 22:6-7, 2Corinthians 11:12-15, 1Peter 5:6-11

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MoneyWalk 372: Humility Brings Promotion

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Many people try very hard to obtain promotions to the top of the ladder inside and outside of the organizations they work and socialize in (business, government, Church, etc.). The view leadership / managerial positions as the ultimate prize, the holy grail, the prize that must be obtained if they are to be somebody in their own eyes and those of other people. A small number make it all the way to the top and only a slightly larger number make it to managerial levels. About 90% never make it to owner, leader, manager levels that come with the highest titles, clout, pay, and benefits.

A lot of people wind up being sorely disappointed because they never reach the level they’ve made a priority. Here’s a secret: many at the higher levels also wind up sorely disappointed because they never obtain the joy, peace, and satisfaction they thought these positions would hold. Sure, they may have more material things and greater human comfort, titles, and honor from men around them but the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life from which they pursued these levels bring destructive attitudes, habits, and consequences into their lives. If only because many put pursuit and attainment of these levels at a priority above intimacy with the LORD, fellowship with the Church, and maximum earthly and spiritual help for others via use of the resources allowed them in stairs they’ve landed on along the course of their lives.

There certainly is nothing wrong with gaining higher education, work experience, mentoring, and relationships that can help you progress in life to higher stair steps along the way. But, the attitude with which you do it, the path you take, how you do it, and your feelings of thankfulness and gratitude to Him and others regardless of the level attained will either be odious to the LORD or pleasing to Him. If odious and you remain in that mode and unrepentant then your pursuit and the things attained work destruction instead of the spiritual life with grand benefits He purposed for you. If pleasing to Him, then you produce just what the Master ordained and receive the tremendous benefit He purposed for your life no matter the stair you land on at any point in life.

Thus, you must learn to see that the ability to be more useful to God and helpful to other people is what makes a promotion desirable. Also, you must realize the promotions and levels with powerful natural and supernatural benefit come from the LORD. No matter what work you do or level you attain or do not attain, you are in the heavenly Hall of Fame (see Hebrews 11) when in humility your priority is to have continual intimacy with Him and follow biblical principles (His standards) for spiritual and earthly productivity. Humility leads you to present your life to Him in thanksgiving, praise, worship, prayer, bible study, fellowship within the Church, disciplined and fruitful work, planning via intricate knowledge of your monthly income and expenses, living beneath your income, eliminating debt, regular saving, long-term investing, and asset diversification over time. This is a humble lifestyle that brings true and meaningful promotion.

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Psalms 75:6-10, Daniel 4:30-35, James 4:6, 1Peter 5:5-7

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MoneyWalk 371: Trust The LORD Completely

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

As you become intimate with the LORD in thanksgiving, praise, worship, and prayer the relationship, spiritual vision, and obedience to His will that is developed will relieve past worries and anxieties. Employing such biblical principles and tools is the way to show your trust and guarantees eternal rewards as a result of helping spread the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the whole earth by the way you talk and walk out your life.

This order is important because talking (declaring and proclaiming) His Word and will precede walking them out. In fact, one often cannot walk out (live Christ-like) what he cannot talk out. This is not boasting in yourself and the filthy rags of your righteousness but it is boasting of Jesus Christ’s righteousness (absolute purity) that cleanses you, as a believer, from all unrighteous. It is being willing to share your testimony of the Savior and LORD of your life that He is and the change He made in your life including the growth He continues to lead you to in the future.

One who trusts Him knows He already made a way even when your natural eyes see uncertainty and no positive pathway ahead because He already filled the void in your heart that was there for so long and continually grants you mercy and grace to help in every situation in the time of need. Trusting Him by using biblical financial principles and tools betters your financial situation on earth and helps you not be moved to take unwise actions when the world around you experiences economic downturns.

Do not continue using worldly methods of living and managing money because they do not work toward an eternal purpose and may ultimately tempt and lead you to deceive, cheat, and abuse people in order to build up greater accumulation that you think will make your life better. No matter how much you build on earth this way of living can never make you rich toward God or be endeavors that please Him and will not really satisfy you even though all the material things and titles men give you will erect a façade of satisfaction.

Yet, you will continue to lack peace and joy on earth until you repent and change your actions. Your income and financial situation may get better on earth, but you will certainly reap eternal damnation for destroying your soul and other people's lives by your un-repented actions. Complete trust in the LORD which leads you to treat others (family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, employees, etc.) with love and concern that seeks result that are in each one’s best interest pleases Him to the utmost and gains you far more useful wealth eternally and on earth because you operate in His economy.

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

Deuteronomy 1:32-38, John 3:16-21, Ephesians 3:14-21, Philippians 3:7-11, Hebrews 11:6

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MoneyWalk 370: You Are Unique

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

You are loved by the LORD and special. You were born with unique abilities that fit the purpose He has in mind for your life per the life race He desires you to run and the destiny He desires for you. When nurtured by you via intimate fellowship with Him while obeying His voice as He directs your path, you will find your wealthy place of success and fruitfulness. That place, God long ago designed for you, is ministry whether thru business, preaching, government service, music, art or other and varying vocations throughout your life.

Along your journey other people will try to convince you there's a higher calling or another area of work for you than what you know the LORD has called you to do. They will present the fruit from what they have seeded, implore you to give all you have into their ministry, and thus let them do everything that is needed so it can be done right by the one they believe has the great anointing. There are ministries He wants you to give to (money and a helping hand) and to become a disciple of to learn ways in which one can properly follow Christ. Yet, one day you may be called to venture out of that nest to walk the path He prepared you to engage for enhanced fruitfulness in your life that others can eat from and be drawn closer to Him.

By biblical standards you need to measure the lifestyle and fruitfulness of anyone who is or would be your mentor, lest you look upon their fruit, that seems outwardly good to eat, when inwardly it may be full of worms and poisons leading you down a path of destruction and death. Yet, when intimate relationship with someone displays truly good fruit then learn of them by identifying the biblical principles they employ and ask the LORD which methods you should engage to bring these principles alive in your life. Methods are many, principles are few, methods often change, but principles never do. Often various methods they use can successfully be employed in your life, especially in the early stages of your endeavors, and that is one of the reasons He connected you with their ministry.

It is worth repeating that you are loved by the LORD and have been given unique gifts and talents to help you serve other people. You are not your neighbor and God did not create you to be his clone and act exactly like him / her. When you fulfill God's plan for your life and your neighbors do also, together you fit within the perfectly designed body of Christ of which He is the head and all in all who will bring success to the body and every part through all they do.

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Genesis 25:23-26, Romans 12:3-8, 1Corinthians 12:4-14, Ephesians 4:11-32

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