MoneyWalk 456 Let Love Guide Your Money Management

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

So many people are focused on becoming rich and great in the eyes of other people. While the LORD almighty can immensely prosper you, a heart and mind whose priority focus is set on obtaining riches, fame, high-position, and/or power will ultimately be stabbed and destroyed and experience many sorrows. Gaining the world and losing your soul, which puts you on the road of eternal damnation and earthly destruction, is akin to failing to repent and turn your heart to Jesus Christ as Savior and LORD so that you live, move, and have your being in Him.

Being rich and famous is not sinful. There is no right or wrong assigned to wealth, fame, legitimate positions, and power. However, when they are your priority instead of intimacy with the LORD from which flows instruction and guidance for your life and pursuits, then you will fear sharing the gospel with other people to evangelize and make disciples because you think it will negatively affect your career, business pursuits, net-working, revenue, and income.

This heart and mindset produce money management, giving, investing, and debt accumulation activities that are not pleasing to Him and not helpful in leading other people closer to Him. Some people will see your activities even when you think no one is looking, some will take on your mindset and emulate your negative money activities, and some will put you in high esteem for the success it seems you achieved and unfortunately will get the idea that pursuit of riches and greatness on earth is the highest priority.

Each Christian must be careful to pursue God in Christ more than anything else. This is done only through the love of God poured into your heart by the Holy Ghost. Of course, God wants every person to come to Him via Christ and thus allow His love to be the only motivation for everything we do including working, earning, managing, and growing money. Love never fails and creates for you an everlasting habitation in His presence. Money and greatness cannot do this, but they can be used in a mighty way to further gospel work that needs to be done here on earth to focus and lead many others to Jesus Christ.

So, as you pursue money making, managing, investing, and business pursuits make sure you maintain your love relationship with the LORD, spend time with Him daily, be guided by His Spirit, obey His biblical commands and principles, and speak and act as Christ’s ambassador on the earth. Take instruction from the examples of missionaries we love so much and support. The love of God in them and trust in His care compels them to move into hostile territory when called, face possible death, and endure suffering.

Tens of millions of dollars flow into their hands, yet they do not put their trust in it. Rather, they recognize they are blessed to be a blessing to many others. Love moves them to sacrifice, suffer afflictions, and great personal loss at times on earth to spread this great gospel throughout the world. They shall receive an everlasting crown from almighty God that is much more precious and enduring. This too should be your focus.

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

Matthew 22:36-40, Mark 10:21-22, John 14:15, 21, James 1:12

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MoneyWalk 455b Short-term Pain That Is Long-term Gain

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Working diligently to serve, gain experience, and develop skill to produce income to care for yourself and your family and help provide for others in need is certainly the road to take. It will help you have more provision for worthwhile priorities as opposed to the meager welfare that might be afforded by other people if you chose the sluggard’s route of not seeking to consistently work.

Many forces in the world seek to pull you away from the foundation and pathway of good stewardship by telling you some other pathway is more important or noble in our modern, civilized society, such as having access to as much personal credit (loans/debt) as you can get your hands on. Some advisors are telling people (1) debt is good and they cannot live a good life without having debt throughout their lives; (2) you will always have house loans, student loans, car loans, and revolving loans and should never seek to pay them off except on their normal 30, 20, and 5 to 10-year payment schedules; you need a good amount of debt to keep your credit score as high as possible so you can borrow more in the future to make your life more comfortable and successful.

For the unsuspecting and those ignorant of truth this sounds like savvy advice. However, you should understand the Word says not one jot or tittle of His Word will ever fail to produce the positive or negative consequence it identifies as the result of the pathway and actions you take. Therefore, every pathway, principle, and method of doing something should be carefully studied to ensure it conforms with biblical principles for good stewardship because this is the only pathway that is truly fruitful for this life and eternity. If the path, principle, or method conflicts with biblical instruction, you should refuse to use it.

What good is getting, keeping, and continuing to get more loans when the LORD said this practice will put you in financial bondage, thus thwarting your ability to give and build wealth. To the human mind, in the short haul it may seem like a benefit, however looks are deceiving. There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof is destruction & death.

When you choose a path opposite His instruction, you eventually come to a point in time when that path leads to negative consequences that are not pleasant to endure. Consider the 2007 and 2008 economic debacle that turned many people’s lives upside down via bankruptcies, foreclosures, repossessions, loss of jobs and income, etc. Much of it started via unreasonable decisions like maxing out loans for over-priced real estate, cars, and other items. Also, banks and sub-prime lenders offered unreasonable mortgage options and Wall Street packaged these mortgages as investments that ended up losing lots of money when many borrowers could not pay the underlying mortgages. In addition, many people threw investment / asset diversification out the door and engaged in day trading and market timing as though they were stock market gurus.

Individuals and our nation will be in a far better place when we choose to apply biblical principles, thus refusing to be swayed by what looks good in the short-term and to worldly people around us. We would continue to gain long-term favor, blessing, and reward that will positively cover our future short-term periods. A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he that makes haste to be rich shall not go unpunished. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD!

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

Proverbs 28:20, Ecclesiastes 11:2, Habakkuk 2:2-5, Philippians 4:13, 2Thessalonians 3:10

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MoneyWalk 455a Short-term Pain That Is Long-term Gain

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Scripture teaches that good stewards engage in the following practices and reap blessings from doing so:

1. Understand the LORD owns everything. Manage money and resources like the Almighty owns it all because He does. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word is God, and nothing was made unless it was made by Him. This requires that you seek His will when it comes to spending, saving & investing, and giving decisions.

2. Show contentment. Continue or start tithing to your local church or a worthwhile ministry each time you receive income. Choose delayed gratification instead of instant gratification. Do not buy that bigger house, more expensive car, new furniture, new jewelry, etc. until you have reached the priority goal of being a faithful tithing member of a local church and totally debt-free. Stuff to buy will still be there at prices you can afford to pay after you reach your goal.

3. Sacrifice short-term pleasure for long-term financial soundness. Delayed gratification now (because you need to employ it) results in great benefits accruing to you in the long-run. I buffet (beat my body into submission) lest having told others about the way I myself become a castaway (do not get to receive the benefits of following the principles I've told others about). And Barnabas sold land that he owned and gave it to the Apostles for the work of the ministry!!!

4. Show self-control. This is a fruit of the Spirit mentioned in Galatians 5, which along with the other eight fruit shows that we walk in the Spirit and not according to the flesh. Pleasing God is the ultimate goals that anyone can have, and this goal can only be displayed by living according to His commands. You must learn to be obedient to biblical principles in order to control your fleshly appetite and put the focus back on fulfilling His purpose for your life. This will help produce wealth in a way that is pleasing to God without compromising your relationship with Jesus Christ.

5. Tithe and give offerings to honor God for His provision and to help fund the spread of the gospel to every person around the world. And the Holy Spirit shall come upon you and you will be witnesses to me in Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the Earth.

6. Work diligently. For even when we were with you, we commanded you that any man who would not work should also not eat.

7. Live on less than your income by budgeting your spending. Know the state of your flocks and herds and write the vision down plainly on paper so that you may successfully use it to reach the desired goal.

8. Eliminate debt and seek to live debt-free. The borrower is a slave to the lender. God desires that you be the head and not the tail.

9. Eliminate cosigning for other people’s debts. Do not cosign for other people’s debts unless you want your coat taken and be subject to ridicule and irresponsibility.

10. Save & Invest a reasonable portion of your income. This prospers you. The master commended the faithful servants who traded with what He gave them and produced double to present to Him. Remember, there is oil and wine in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spends all that he gets his hands on.

11. Diversify assets. There is safety in the multitude of counselors. Therefore, save and invest with seven or eight different reputable sources and with a similar number of different types of investments.

Though there may be short-term pain in dying to yourself, the lust of the flesh, the eyes, and the pride of life, always believe what you read and study in the bible over what you see and hear in the world and approach life and finances in the way scripture directs, then you will truly be fruitful and prosperous on earth and in eternity.

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

Proverbs 28:20, Ecclesiastes 11:2, Habakkuk 2:2-5, Philippians 4:13, 2Thessalonians 3:10

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MoneyWalk 454 Forgiving Helps You Manage Better

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

There are numerous people who allow un-forgiveness to wreck their lives and health. Unforgiveness is a bad decision promoted by the carnal nature and demonic forces. It often leads to trying to get revenge on others you think caused the problem. Sometimes, you can’t forgive yourself for acts you’ve done and so you consciously or unconsciously make bad decisions that sabotage the great future the LORD desires you to have. Sometimes these situations lead to unreasonable spending to either get back at someone or to try to appease the unpleasant feeling you have about what you or they have done to you.

For example, a divorce is taking place and one doesn’t like that his spouse committed adultery, so he directs his attorney to try to take everything away from the spouse instead of forgiving and seeking to reasonably and amicably resolve the problem even if divorce proceedings still need to occur.

Or, one had an abortion years ago or a baby out of wedlock and gave him up for adoption and since that time she spends money on many unneeded things to appease that gut-wrenching feeling of remorse because it seems to help for a short time. Sometimes, overspending is an outright attempt to sabotage your life because you don’t believe you deserve any blessings because of what you’ve done in the past.

Forgiveness is the step you need to take to bring yourself to a place where you can be led by the Holy Spirit. It will help you move past remorse from formerly being a poor steward and will let you know that the LORD still loves you and has empowered you in heart, mind, and bodily strength to positively move forward in life and good financial stewardship. Believers must remember His love for them is not based on their goodness and neither is His love for other people. It is based only on Christ’s unstained righteousness that provides us the ability to repent and move forward.

You can be a person of forgiveness and thus discipline who can envision a blessed future, stop unwisely using debt instruments, budget income and expenses to live within your means, and build future wealth for giving, saving, investing, and responsible spending.

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

Matthew 6:14-15, 18:21-35, Luke 6:37-38, 17:1-4, 2Corinthians 10:3-6

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