Thursday, February 27, 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
MoneyWalk 38 What Is Your Net Worth?
The LORD desires that you have a rich spiritual and natural net worth. Believers in Christ already have the most valuable asset because His worth supersedes all other things they could have or experience while leading them to a purpose-filled life on Earth and a blissful heavenly home thereafter. As part of this He wants an extremely positive number to represent your financial net worth, which is calculated by subtracting your debts from your assets. This is achieved by making intimacy with Him the most important aspect of your life that leads to a commitment to do life and finances His way in accordance with His principles.
Tithing and abundant free-will offering in proportion to income and assets He entrusts to you, use of time and talent to help lead people to Him and do good works, working to become debt-free, saving and investing, and diversifying assets play an important part in the process of growing your net worth while showing your number one priority is Him, which includes His will and way of living and managing money. It doesn’t matter if you are currently no, low, middle, or high income you can use His power inside to engage this lifestyle.
In turn, principles and processes that conform to this lifestyle have the power to provide all you need and many things you desire as well as enough left over to do many other good works. As you go beyond paying to provide your need (place to live, food, clothing, transportation, etc.), recognize the market value of furniture, appliances, clothing, tools, cars, and most other goods and services drop in value drastically, starting shortly after you purchase them. In certain neighborhoods and economic situations, the value of houses, commercial buildings, and land could also drop in value as opposed to the usual appreciation in value that takes place over many years of ownership. This reality of the depreciating value of most material things should help you exercise godly wisdom when making purchases and deciding what is truly worthwhile in life.
Don't put all your effort in accumulating money and goods for earthly purposes. They decay, lose value, and have no eternal worth. Rather, as you go about furthering your career, earning greater income, and building assets in this life make sure you also build treasure in Heaven by giving abundantly to spread the gospel and make disciples of other people. The value of this treasure increases throughout eternity and where your treasure is your heart will be also.
The LORD’s greatest aim for you is to seek a more intimate relationship with Him. Through this fellowship He provide blessings and rewards and motivates you to engage financially sound processes in your life based on biblical principles. Bible accounts of patriarch/matriarchs who amassed wealth (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, David, Hezekiah, Joseph of Arimathea, Lydia, and others) clearly show the LORD wants to help you prosper as you engage intimacy with Him and obedience to His will. This will lead you to start and continue using money in ways that truly glorify Him and benefit you and other people.
Please pray for this ministry, email me with any questions, and contact me to speak at your business or ministry conference or workshop. May the LORD bless you richly as you follow His plan!
Matthew 6:33, Mark 10:28-30, Luke 12:21, 32-34, 1Timothy 6:6-19
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Monday, February 17, 2020
MoneyWalk 37 To Truly Succeed You Need Jesus!
It is great to have material things that make your life more comfortable. Most everyone wants a nice house, a classy automobile, and sharp clothes. As a matter of fact, most people have dreamed of being multi-millionaires and search for pathways that can be used to obtain such wealth.
Money is not evil, even though some people have sought and used it to fund immoral lifestyles and endeavors. Money is simply a magnifying glass; having more of it causes you to live on a larger scale where more people can better see your character through the way you spend it, use it, save it, and give it. There are many people who use it to fund endeavors that truly help people and make this world a better place to live.
In the hands of good people, money and material things magnify the fact that they are continually seeking to evangelize and disciple many people to lead them to Christ by helping spread the gospel at home and abroad and supporting charitable causes that honor the LORD. In the hands of ungodly people, money magnifies the fact that they encourage, support, and engage ungodly activities that negatively affect the lives of many others and have no focus on being intimate with the LORD and serving other people in accordance with His standards.
Most people in the United States are rich in comparison to most people that live in other parts of the world. That is why it is best for everyone to understand that deceitfulness of riches does not affect only those they believe have big bucks (high income and/or many assets). Anyone is deceived by it when he/she does not pursue intimacy with the LORD and use money in ways that glorify Him and lead people to Jesus Christ.
Always remain in control of money and never let the spirit of mammon control you, otherwise it will progressively push you out of fellowship and possibly relationship with Him, other people (whose lives He wants you to positively affect now and for eternity), cause you to engage practices that are not good examples to other people (even if on Earth you get riches you want), and pierce your heart with many sorrows and drown you in destruction and perdition. Choose the biblically correct manner of dealing with money by living according to biblical principles, guided by the Holy Spirit, because this will lead to prosperity for you and future generations taking you to the wealthy place.
Please pray for this ministry, email me with any questions, and contact me to speak at your business or ministry conference or workshop. May the LORD bless you richly as you follow His plan!
Acts 4:10-12, John 3:16-19, 2Peter 3:9-18, Revelation 12:10-12
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Sunday, February 9, 2020
MoneyWalk 36 Do Not Be Deceived
It is great to have material things that make your life more comfortable. Most everyone wants a nice house, a classy automobile, and sharp clothes. As a matter of fact, most people have dreamed of being multi-millionaires and search for pathways that can be used to obtain such wealth.
Money is not evil, even though some people have sought and used it to fund immoral lifestyles and endeavors. Money is simply a magnifying glass; having more of it causes you to live on a larger scale where more people can better see your character through the way you spend it, use it, save it, and give it. There are many people who use it to fund endeavors that truly help people and make this world a better place to live.
In the hands of good people, money and material things magnify the fact that they are continually seeking to evangelize and disciple many people to lead them to Christ by helping spread the gospel at home and abroad and supporting charitable causes that honor the LORD. In the hands of ungodly people, money magnifies the fact that they encourage, support, and engage ungodly activities that negatively affect the lives of many others and have no focus on being intimate with the LORD and serving other people in accordance with His standards.
Most people in the United States are rich in comparison to most people that live in other parts of the world. That is why it is best for everyone to understand that deceitfulness of riches does not affect only those they believe have big bucks (high income and/or many assets). Anyone is deceived by it when he/she does not pursue intimacy with the LORD and use money in ways that glorify Him and lead people to Jesus Christ.
Always remain in control of money and never let the spirit of mammon control you, otherwise it will progressively push you out of fellowship and possibly relationship with Him, other people (whose lives He wants you to positively affect now and for eternity), cause you to engage practices that are not good examples to other people (even if on Earth you get riches you want), and pierce your heart with many sorrows and drown you in destruction and perdition. Choose the biblically correct manner of dealing with money by living according to biblical principles, guided by the Holy Spirit, because this will lead to prosperity for you and future generations taking you to the wealthy place.
Please pray for this ministry, email me with any questions, and contact me to speak at your business or ministry conference or workshop. May the LORD bless you richly as you follow His plan!
Psalm 66:12, Ecclesiastes 10:19, Luke 12:13-21, I Timothy 6:6-19, Revelation 3:17-19
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Sunday, February 2, 2020
MoneyWalk 35 Be The Witness God Wants You To Be
Truly loving people was at times shown by immediately exposing the sinful nature in which particular people were living (i.e., Jesus comment concerning Herod, Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, Paul dealing with Elymas the sorcerer, and John communicating problems with Diotrephes). I doubt any of these folks thought they were being loved when their sinful activities were exposed, especially in front of other people. Yet, this did not dissuade Jesus or the disciples from doing so when it needed to be done. If the sinners would have an ear to hear they could repent, accept Jesus as Savior & LORD, and by the power of the Holy Spirit turn from their wicked ways in order to live according to His way.
Let’s not forget it is the Holy Spirit who determines what a particular person or group of people need to hear from you. True believers do not hate people who engage sinful acts and we approach them in a loving way in accordance with the design shown in scripture. However, some people will take offense at our gospel communication because needing a Savior & LORD implies they live in sin. Surely, it does just like it does for us prior to being born again, because humanly no one is righteous, no not one. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. As noted above, there are times we directly point out sins people are engaging because per scripture and often by results in their lives we see that sinful activities are causing them and their families harm. Not telling them would be like seeing your best friend drinking poison and refusing to tell him the harm it will bring because you don’t want to control his life or make him think you’re better than him. It would be utter foolishness to not tell him about the poison. Wisdom shows that love would warn him and hope he heeds it so his life is saved and preserved for future fruitfulness.
Certainly, we should not tell him because we better than he is. Rather, we tell him knowing it is Jesus Christ’s righteousness alone that saves us and grants us a place in Heaven and eternity with Him. God forbid that we are always chomping at the bit to expose people’s sins and not recognizing that our righteousness (outside of Christ) is like filthy rags. It seems this type of approach should be used sparingly, if it all, by most believers because the scriptures seem to show it was used sparingly. We simply need to be ready to communicate in this manner when the Holy Spirit leads us to do so. Most of the time our witness should be focused upon Jesus life, ministry, burial, resurrection, and sacrifice that makes for salvation and eternal life for all who call upon His name and the testimony of the ways in which He changes and improves our lives.
We know God will ultimately judge every unrepentant sinner to the eternal damnation he/she has chosen, yet we keep love, hope, and faith alive knowing that everyone who sincerely calls upon the name of the LORD Jesus is saved and will be fruitful in helping fulfill the Great Commission through the agency of his/her life on Earth, prayer, serving, abundant giving, and managing money and resources according to biblical principles, which is the manner that pleases Him.
Please pray for this ministry, email me with any questions, and contact me to speak at your business or ministry conference or workshop. May the LORD bless you richly as you follow His plan!
Luke 13:32, John 4:16-19, Acts 13:8-12, 2John 1:9-12
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