MoneyWalk 439b Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

A question you must ask yourself is am I doing what I should be with the income and resources I have to ensure I am able to bear much fruit in accordance with God’s will? This should lead you to begin or continue to manage your finances in such a way that you: (a) budget income and expenses; (b) eliminate debt and refuse to enter new debt situations; (c) refuse to co-sign on debts; (d) save and ultimately invest a reasonable portion of your income; and (e) treat other people in the manner you want to be treated if you were in their shoes.

Let the police, prosecutors, and courts exact justice and needed sentences upon criminals and those who flaunt the law. But as for you, refuse to call anyone wrong before you are certain they have committed an illegal or immoral act. You might not have the whole picture and thus might falsely accuse someone who is innocent. Even when people have done wrong, you show mercy and believe that they are still worthy to be saved and can change their ways just like you want others to show mercy to you when you’ve done wrong.

We are created and called by God to be helpers one of another and only to bring justice upon people when we have such trust and authority bestowed upon us by Him (God thru parents and governments, churches thru elders, businesses owners thru managers, we the people thru elected government leaders, and government thru the justice system). Endeavoring to love and refusing to judge anyone before the proper time requires understanding spiritual authority, which helps you:

1. Live in an intimate & committed relationship with Jesus Christ.

2. Fellowship with His saints (those who have confessed Him as Lord and Savior) in a local bible believing Church.

3. Commit to fund the gospel work of the local Church via tithes and offerings so together you can spread the gospel and provide practical help in your community and around the world, while leading many to Jesus Christ.

4. Focus more on putting your hands to the ministry work plow, which shows that your faith has action behind it and thus is not dead. This is done not only in the Church but in your home, neighborhood, and employment.

5. Gain greater ability to directly help some who are truly in need, even while helping lazy or deceitful freeloaders understand what the LORD entrusts to you is for the needy and not the greedy.

Never be ashamed of the greater income, possessions, and influence He allows you to get when you have sought to do His will of God and have not greedily grafted after gain, power, position, and fame and/or torn and pulled others down to get it. Be more than willing to brag on Him while continuing to: (1) learn more about biblical principles, (2) adhere to them, and (3) use His supernatural power within you to labor to meet the goals and produce the results mentioned above.

Whether you are a business owner, executive, politician, manager, or employee refuse to think more highly of yourself than you do of other people. Always refuse to oppress people, do not work them like slaves, and pay them fair wages based on godly standards, because it is in your power to do so and it ultimately blesses you as much as them and their immediate family. When sacrifices need to be made you should make deep and sometimes greater sacrifices than you ask of those under your authority. These are ways in which you love your neighbor as yourself and thus bring God-pleasing fruitfulness and reward into your life and ministry.

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

Leviticus 19:18, Proverbs 21:13, Mark 12:31, Romans 13:8, Galatians 6:2

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MoneyWalk 439a Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Many people have been told they cannot help anyone else until they are self-sufficient. This man-made belief is contrary to biblical truth. Things you and others think and say that have no foundation in the bible are myths that when lived out will ruin your life on earth and possibly throughout eternity. The bible is the sole authority on truth and you should live according to its precepts in order to fulfill your purpose and prosper. It shows the truth that you can be of great help to others at every stage of life and can help in many ways no matter your current in-come and asset levels.

The LORD’s plan is for you to love Him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength because He first loves you then His love is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Spirit to truly love your neighbors. Such love does not mean you are obliged to do anything in particular anyone asks you. To understand the actions and giving that really help people, you need to study scripture to find out the types of things the LORD did for people and instructed His disciples to do and imitate these actions when in life’s marketplace you come upon true needs. Ask Him daily what He wants you to do, listen intently for direction, and obey His instruction.

The process is started within you by:

1. Being respectful, kind, and cordial to everyone around you, making sure you are not a respecter of persons based on people’s position or power in the workplace, politics, society, etc.

2. Having an attitude of heart that desires and seeks opportunities that connect people with the LORD, recognizing they need His loving guidance, correction, and blessing just like you do.

3. Being responsible to live according to biblical principles so you are personally focused on doing His will as an example to your family, neighbors, co-workers, and others.

How you handle the financial part of your life plays a great role in your ability to accomplish the above goals to the greatest degree possible. He who has the most money and toys does not win the game, being rich toward yourself and not Him and the Kingdom of Heaven causes you to be dethroned from sitting with Him in heavenly places and relegates you to the garbage bin of eternity. Those whose lives are hidden in Christ have heavenly treasures at their disposal now and throughout eternity. He has everything you will ever need and nothing is impossible for Him and therefore for you because He forever lives in you.

He never judges you on the basis of what you do with what you do not have. He is invested in inspiring you to be intimate with Him and flow from this to do the most good for others that you can with what you do have in order to lead them to the Kingdom of Heaven. This requires employing biblically-based good stewardship of your giftings, abilities, income-earning capacity, money, resources, and relationships. This to the fullest extent helps you love and serve your neighbor in the most beneficial way.

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

Leviticus 19:18, Proverbs 21:13, Mark 12:31, Romans 13:8, Galatians 6:2

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MoneyWalk 438 Love Almighty God Above All

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

In order to be truly a good steward over the money and resources God has provided you must get this principle right. Don’t get me wrong, you will have access to some level of money and manage money in some way regardless of whether you love God with all your heart, however you will not reap the eternal and earthly rewards that you receive when you properly manage money and resources via relationship with Jesus Christ according to the directions He has provided in the bible.

Through the crucifixion, shedding of blood, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ God made a way for all who confess Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord to inherit not only a personal loving relationship with Him now, but also a heavenly home when we leave this place called Earth. Other people will at times try to convince you that all paths lead to Rome. In other words, they will say there are other roads to God and Heaven and some will even say there is no God. But God’s word contained in the bible for our good does not conform to these man-made ideologies and exposes them as lies that harm people. Instead of leading people into a loving relationship with a loving personable God, these ideologies lead them away from pursuing God and thus away from the bliss that would be had in eternity with Him. Make no bones about it, He made a way that each of us can select, but we individually must choose eternal bliss or eternal damnation. He will not make the choice for you.

You will do a number of good things on earth before you choose a relationship with Him, but these things have no eternal value because only what you do for Christ will last. People on earth may appreciate the good you do; however, you cannot earn salvation unto blissful eternity because your good works can never be enough to overcome your sins and faulty character. Salvation can only be had by faith accepting Christ and His robe of righteousness, which alone makes you acceptable to Father. Your choice to do this is what aims you to the place of your eternal future. I hope you forsake the humanistic lies and accept the truth about Jesus Christ contained in the bible as the only roadmap to a heavenly eternity.

This love for almighty God with all your heart should lead you in the management of money in the sense that when you learn what God says you should do to be a good steward you will follow that path. For example, when you learn that the bible says a wise man builds treasures but a foolish man spends everything he gets, this should lead you to budget your expenses based on your income knowing that you should plan and act throughout your life in a manner that lives off far less than your income and employs a continuous process of saving and investing a good portion of your income (10%, 15%, etc.).

Each of the money management methods that will truly prosper you while on Earth and throughout eternity are based on principles in the bible: working, tithing, offering, giving, forsaking and eliminating debt, refusing to co-sign, saving, investing, and diversifying assets. In order to dig out these nuggets of truth so they can be a blessing to your life, you simply must listen to people who teach biblical truth and educate yourself through reading scripture, research, and fellowship with the Holy Spirit. The prosperity of many people is built on sand because their management does not conform to scriptural standards. They’ve caused financial harm to their families and others as a result. Build your life on the Rock Jesus Christ and your prosperity now and in eternity will be built on the solid foundation that will not fail you because He has promised those who choose Him that He will never leave you nor forsake you.

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Exodus 20:1-17, Psalms 31:23, Matthew 6:33, 22:37, James 4:4

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MoneyWalk 437 Haste Makes Waste

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In 2009 numerous people said they wanted to start flipping or rent real estate. They believed it was the right time to get into the game because housing values in most parts of the United States had been reduced up to 40% off their 2006 record high levels. They heard that others were doing this very thing and were able to get foreclosed homes at even lower prices. Some heard banks were selling many foreclosed houses for as little as one dollar. It was true some banks reduced prices to get out from under foreclosed houses that cost them a great deal of money to sit on because they would have to maintain the properties and pay taxes while trying to wait for many years for the market to come back up in speculation that they could then sell to someone at much higher prices. However, it was an exaggeration that they were basically giving away very sound houses for next to nothing.

Even with the much lower housing prices many people paid more than their income and assets could handle. They also often had to make tens of thousands of dollars in cosmetic improvements and sometimes more in structural repairs. They filled their lives up with loans and many raided the little bit they had in retirement accounts to get fixer-uppers. They lost lots of money and owed huge sums when they did not have enough money to make needed repairs and thus could not sell the homes or rent them. Many were not good landlords and could not keep trustworthy renters in the places or demand enough rent even on fixed up places to cover the mortgages on the properties. They also did not have enough income or assets to maintain the properties and pay mortgages for many months or years when they were unable to flip or rent them. They needed a huge amount of cash saved in order to make these deals work. Many who had no understanding of how such investment works and/or did not have the necessary skill fell into foreclosure and/or bankruptcy just like many of those from whom the houses were previously taken.

This story was told from the standpoint of flipping and rental real estate investments but relates to other types of investment for which one needs to obtain a deeper knowledge base and understanding of its operation and how to profit before wading in. There are some people uniquely skilled with a calling to invest in this type of venture. However, there are also some people who are not skilled and called to flipping, being a landlord, investing in commodities and futures, etc. and should not engage them until such time as they sit down with gifted people who have been profitable in these areas and truly understand how to become profitable themselves. In the meantime, they should work to become totally debt-free and save money well beyond their three to six-month emergency fund so that when the day comes they can with wisdom wade into investments that have a much higher possibility for growth. They also should consistently be investing at least 10% of gross monthly income (and make sure they get all 401k employer match money) with the bulk of it in a diversified portfolio of total U.S. market no load low expense stock index mutual funds and a pinch of it in U.S. no load low expense bond index funds.

If you have seriously prayed about an investment or business venture and feel that God has directed you to make such an investment, by all means you should at some point do it. Yet, you should not do it on a spur of the moment, throwing all understanding and wisdom to the wind hoping to get rich quick. You should research the methods and processes that successful people have utilized. This will help you determine:

1. The position you need to be in

2. The plan you need to craft

3. The actions you need to take, and

4. The time you are likely to have to wait before it becomes profitable for you.

During this time, you should be utilizing budgeting which is a working, giving, saving, and spending plan that helps you put yourself in position to invest a substantial amount of money in the venture. If you’re in really bad financial condition, it may take you a couple of years to save the money necessary to invest but you’ll be better prepared and better off in the long run having made such preparations. Proverbs 27:12 says, “A prudent man sees danger and sidesteps it but the simple-minded walk right into it and suffer.” So, don’t be hasty to be rich. Instead:

A. Believe that you will prosper

B. Research the venture through which you want to prosper

C. Write a plan identifying your macro vision of the venture that details the methods you’ll use

D. Take action to achieve the desired results, and

E. Have patience while you reach each step on the ladder to the prosperous future that awaits you.

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

Proverbs 21:5, 23:4-5, 28:20, Habakkuk 2:2-4, Luke 14:28-32, 1Timothy 6:9-11

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MoneyWalk 436 Patience And Sound Judgment Produce Rewards

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

It seems like it would be great if we could get all the things we want instantly. However, hastening to fulfill desires digs a ditch of future problems that is not easy to get out of. That is why the scripture shows when you love money or hasten to be rich you will stab yourself with many sorrows. You bring pain upon yourself that you wouldn’t have otherwise had to face and become spiritually bankrupt and forsake eternity with a loving God. Many also experience earthly poverty due to constant get-rich-quick-schemes. The rewards the LORD has for you requires good planning that incorporates patience and sound judgment based upon principles found in the bible as guided by the Holy Spirit.

Having patience doesn’t by any means suggest that you will never have many of the things you desire. However, scripture points out a principled process create opportunities for things truly desirable to be obtained because first and foremost you will give your time, attention, and whole life to your Father God through an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. Then, you will seek to do His will by serving His causes via engaging evangelization of the unsaved and disciple-making of the saved: till we all come to the knowledge of the Son of God and are knit in unity by His will.

Your Father also desires that you use sound judgment by learning His ways through worshipping Him via reading / studying scripture, praising, and praying. This will create greater personal knowledge from which understanding will develop and from which wise actions will flow. Sound judgment is inevitable when you fill yourself with the Word of God and spend intimate time with Him. Of course, this increases throughout your life as your intensity in these arenas increase.

A result of the combination of these characteristics of patience and sound judgment in your lifestyle will be contentment in the place you are now in with a recognition that God is working out future plateaus for you that are exceedingly and abundantly above what you can currently think or ask. You will recognize that if nothing more ever happened for you materially on earth you would still love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and would love all your neighbors (fellow human beings) as yourself as shown by your continual abundant praise to God and service to men.

Planning is a process that you use after envisioning a future reward you’d like to obtain. It shows that the vision is important to you. After all, thinking about rewards you want does not suddenly make them appear. Planning requires writing what you hope to accomplish through serving others, a description of skills and tools needed, the marketplace of people you will approach to help your vision become reality, the orderly steps you believe are needed, and an estimated timetable for particular accomplishments and attainments along the way.

Ask the LORD to give you vision, desires, and plans to ensure your motives remain spiritually pure during the planning, action, receiving, harvesting, and utilization stages. Then, follow His guidance. He will enable you to use the limited knowledge and ability you have in the best possible manner and add supernatural power to achieve things most important to Him and you. Never allow people’s opinions to turn you from His principles. Then, you can rest assured your life achievement will turn out to be beyond your wildest dream and be more eternally and earthly fulfilling than anything else you could ever experience.

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

Proverbs 23:4-5, 28:20, Luke 14:28-32, Ephesians 5:15-17, 1Timothy 6:10, Hebrews 10:35-36

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