MoneyWalk 206: The Holy Spirit Should Guide Your Money Management

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit is necessary for you to long to and consistently carry out the will of God in money management, business, discipleship, management of money entrusted you by God, and anything else you do. It is possible to build business(es), accumulate great wealth, and be very successful in man’s eyes and yet be unpleasing to the Lord.

The fact that you have attained a level of material greatness, fame, and power on Earth does not show that you walk in the Spirit. Many people driven by the fleshly carnal nature build their own kingdoms. Unless they repent and give Christ rulership of their heart and lives they will not profit eternally though they experience great profit, fun, and some happiness materially on Earth. Jesus let us know with certainty that the abundance of life is not in the things that one possesses and that it profits a man nothing to gain the world and lose his soul.

Yet, everyday many people seek opulent and expensive material things, fame, and power as their greatest priority instead of seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and letting Him add and show them the things they should do to augment adding all the other things that He knows will truly prosper them. Their carnal minds are drawn into the allure of worldly passions, so they use world systems to obtain.

Thus, much of what they create and the money they earn are used for pursuits that seem good but do not support the Great Commission and the Great Commandment that God in Christ gave the Church. The Holy Spirit’s guidance is essential in building wealth in a God pleasing manner that allows you to continually seek God’s face whether you currently have little or plenty or in the future come into great wealth or a lesser financial position. When you listen to Him you are ensured that your products, services, and proceeds complement gospel work, truly help other people, and help you live in the prosperous condition He desires for your life.

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John 16:7-11, Acts 1:5-8, Romans 12:9-13, 1Corinthians 12:27-28, Jude 1:17-23

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MoneyWalk 205: How To Handle Negativity

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

You will at times have money spats and disagreements that produce friction in your relationships. Your spouse may have a spendthrift behavior and disagree with you on the need to save a reasonable portion of your income. Your parents may get into trouble and be facing foreclosure and pressure you to give them money to try and catch up the mortgage. A loved one may spew ridicule because you refuse to pledge money to their pet project. Or, someone may be hiding from you at the time they are supposed to be paying back money you loaned them.

Many times both parties are at fault for the friction. If they had made decisions based on biblical money management principles, they would have avoided the friction and would be comfortable with the results of their actions, regardless of the results. Don’t get me wrong, you will experience frictions and differences in what the result should have been even when you engage financial transactions with other Christians. And, there certainly may be times that you need to discuss negative results and share how you believe the other party should have handled the situation. Yet, you stop well short of hate and simply allow the Holy Spirit to work in both hearts what needs to be done.

God gives peace that passes all understanding, which produces patience in you and maintains joy. This allows you to forgive those that mistreat and cheat you. Yet, there are times when the Holy Spirit may lead you to stop engaging money transactions with offenders that will not correct their behavior or he may instruct you to stop fellowshipping with them altogether until they have shown positive change. His love calls us to account and may isolate offenders until they see the error of their ways and begin to act in ways that are best for themselves and other people around them.

Always pray that the Holy Spirit correct the situation in the way He chooses and conduct yourself with the utmost integrity, and refuse verbal spats and physical confrontation! Be an example of Christ-likeness no matter what others act like and simply know the truth and it will make you free!!! This posture is highly likely to be an example that the offender will ultimately follow.

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Proverbs 16:20-23, 21:15-16, Ephesians 4:30-32, 6:5-9, James 5:7-9, 1Peter 1:13-16

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MoneyWalk 204: God Rewards His Shepherds and Good Stewards

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

The Lord designed His body, the church, to operate and fulfill its mandated mission using under-shepherds to lead, guide, teach, and provide spiritual protection to His flock. He is the Good Shepherd and they serve under Him in a manner that pursues His will for themselves and the flock, not their own will. If any leader be found to not serve the purposes of Christ, hold dear the things that He holds dear, and act and live in the manner in which Christ and the early apostles did, then he is not a shepherd under Christ and you should find yourself a true church to attend lead by shepherds that follow Christ and that ask only of you that you follow them as they follow Christ.

To stay in an ungodly fellowship holding that the person at the top is a leader is not saying much, for satan is a leader. Yet, we know he leads people into sin, destruction, and damnation. As a child of God you desire no communion with such rebellion. Each individual Christ follower must study the Word to understand what it directs, then ask the Holy Spirit for guidance, and thank Him for the empowerment to fulfill the instruction.

God designed and laid out instructions so that in true churches lead by true under-shepherds a portion of the corporate tithe would provide not only for needs of the church administration and carrying out its part in the gospel mission but would also provide income for those who serve as under-shepherds, giving their time to prayer and the study of God’s word so they can effectively lead, guide, teach, and spiritually protect His people that He allows to follow them.

Don’t fail to tithe because you don’t like that your shepherd’s are paid, paid a certain amount, or because you do not agree with particular projects / ministries they have undertaken. This will block the blessings and rewards God has in store for you. Rather, tithe unto God and let Him handle ministerial pay details in the manner He chooses through the people He allowed to be placed in eldership over that congregation. You should simply seek to be a tither and an abundant giver that joins with a community of believers in which you discern and see evidence that the fruit matches the type scriptures shows is produced by Christ’s body. As a result, you will reap abundantly from the seeds you have sown.

Look for a church where under-shepherds serve members in the ways that God identified as spiritual, practical, and profitable. Under-shepherds being servant leaders who disassociate with those who take advantage of other people for filthy gain works hand-in-hand with God’s desire for you to build wealth because it is improbable that you will build wealth when you allow anyone to suck up for himself every bit of money and resource you receive.

Thus, under-shepherds should always seek the best advantage for the sheep (members of the body of Christ) according to the instruction of the Word and the parameters of blessing and reward that God put His stamp on in scripture. In this way, both the under-shepherd and the sheep will be abundantly blessed. This same instruction applies when teaching people how to be good stewards to help finance ministry goals and maintenance of the Church as an organism and organization in the earth.

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Numbers 18:21, John 10:7-15, Acts 4:36, 2Corinthians 9:6-8, 1Peter 5:1-4

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MoneyWalk 203: Don’t Let Satan Lead You?

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Various influential people are saying, in a workplace, a person should never talk to anyone else about his / her religious beliefs. Other voices erroneously state that the U.S. Constitution forbids talking with others about religion or trying to get them to see the benefit of your religious belief. Of course, they do not and cannot provide reasons for such beliefs that are more important than the Lord’s instruction to go into all the world to evangelize and disciple unbelievers. Nor do they provide language from the constitution that forbids such activity so hearers can measure whether such statements are true or not. They simply expect readers to accept their opinions as truth and the etiquette that should be adhered to.

I understand why people would have this mindset and opinion when they choose to disbelieve the bible. However, even when a law enacted by humans forbids religious speech and activities, Christians have no biblical or spiritual basis to stop activities that are directly commanded by our LORD and Savior. No matter what the laws say and the consequences for violating it, we evangelize unbelievers and build up believers with the Word because we know it is God’s will for every person ever created to hear the gospel and have an opportunity to respond to it in saving faith.

Also, it’s best for everyone and the temporal world we live in for each person to individually listen to the Holy Spirit’s guidance so he / she will live in a sanctified manner (eliminating attitudes / actions that displease God and that fail to show His love to our neighbors). A sanctified lifestyle and interaction with other human beings truly makes the world a better place to live. The problem we have today is more and more people doing the opposite and following their own human will while thinking that our world, nation, and lives will get better, more moral, and more blessed. Of course, the record shows that is not what transpires when you forsake the Lord and His instruction.

God told us that people would be offended by the truth of the gospel. It’s eternally important that we not let individuals or world systems control the Great Commission, our lives, business, or financial stewardship. Otherwise, they cut off our gospel witness in the earth. If we allow people’s opinions and ungodly laws to control us, we’ll fail to give God glory and will receive no eternal reward for our work. I’d rather disobey man, when necessary, in order to fully obey God because I know it’s best for everyone including my accusers, oppressors, and persecutors!

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Mark 8:33-38, Luke 7:20-22, Luke 12:20-21, Acts 4:13-30, Acts 5:40-42, 2Timothy 4:1-8

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Money Walk 202: Be Who The Lord Wants You To Be

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Either you’ll be ruled by what man thinks you should be and do and say or you’ll be ruled by what the Holy Spirit leads you to be and do and say. Some people have the cat by the tail believing that man-made laws, traditions, and philosophies must rule how you evangelize the unsaved and disciple believers. Some follow this prescription out of fear.

Such ungodly attitudes make them speechless about the gospel and of little use to God in their communities. Instead of affecting the world for Christ, they follow the world into ungodly passions and pursuits. The same attitudes and fears will play out in the management of your money and resources if you let them. You must resolve to do what you know God has directed by the bible and the Spirit whether men, so-called experts, or religious leaders agree with your method of pleasing God.

Satan will try to use worldly people and some misinformed people in the church to stop your ministry service. You must resolve to never let the enemy or people stop you from being who the Lord wants you to be and doing what He directs you to do no matter how much you love them or how emotional, educated, or logical their appeal seem to be.

The bible instructs you to live holy. You do this by praying His will for your life, fellowshipping with God-fearing believers, being willing to suffer for Christ’s sake, eliminating the love of money / materialism from your life, tithing and giving offerings, budgeting your income, know the state of your income and expenses, saving and investing to build wealth so that you are blessed to be the blessing the Lord wants you to be while on earth. Expeditiously adhere to these instructions so you steer clear of friendship with the world and enmity with God.

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Isaiah 43:18-28, Jonah 2:8-10, John 15:14-16, Ephesians 5:8-10, James 4:4-8

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MoneyWalk 201: Wrestling Brings Success

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In life, we must deal with desire versus need. In some instances, this can be equated with living in the spirit versus the flesh. In the spirit, we walk according to the Holy Spirit’s direction doing things that are fruitful throughout eternity. In the flesh, we walk according to the dictates of human reasoning with an appetite for ungodly pleasures and desires that disregard God’s will for our lives.

We all battle with walking in the spirit versus the flesh in the financial area as well. While working to put yourself in the position that God wants you to be in, you’ll battle the demons of desire that will attempt to shake your consistency and faithfulness in reducing current debts and not creating new ones.

It may be your flesh or demonic spirits or both attempting to influence you to purchase items that you should not purchase in your current financial condition. Either way, continuing to purchase such material goods and services when you have been a poor steward of the income God has allowed to come into your life will move you further away from the will of God. It will reduce your giving to spread the gospel and will bring harsh consequences to your life such as continuing financial stress and pressure, negating your ability to accumulate valuable assets, and build wealth, and pushing you into foreclosure, repossession, and bankruptcy.

Crucify the lusts of the flesh, bind and cast out demonic influence, be faithful to use biblical money management principles and methods that are pleasing to God and truly helpful to you such as tithing, budgeting, debt elimination, saving, investing, and diversification of assets. When you understand that you wrestle against false prophets that spew out financial advice that is opposite God’s word on good stewardship then you have a chance of not only prospering in all you do but also going about it in a God-honoring and God-pleasing manner.

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Ephesians 6:10-20, Jeremiah 28:15-17, Ezekiel 13:22-23, Luke 20:45-47, Hebrews 2:1-3, 2Peter 2

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MoneyWalk 200: False Financial Prophets

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There are financial advisors who truly have your best interest at heart. They teach you money management principles that will immensely bless you throughout this life and the life to come. They put God first in everything they do and teach you to put God first in all you do. They teach you to pursue the attitude of pleasing God first instead of man and doing so themselves leads them to deal with you honestly according to practices that will truly serve you best.

They don’t succumb to greed, deceit, and abuse of customers regardless of their position, status or knowledge. They remove themselves from corporate cultures that seek to un-righteously take people for all they can get or they operate within such companies in a way that is a godly example to those around them of how to care for clients in the manner that displays God’s love for their financial well-being. They don’t put themselves in a position to immorally or illegally take or misappropriate anyone’s money.

These financial advisors teach you biblical principles so you know how to measure other financial advisors who approach you about managing your money or investing. The lessons also teach you how to shop around for yourself at the different brokerage houses and financial institutions to obtain the very best products and services because they understand that if they treat people with care and concern, truth, and transparency most of the customers will eventually choose to do business with them because they have displayed integrity and trustworthiness.

Beware! There are false financial prophets (advisors) in the world that may have all the notable educational credentials, yet are motivated by greed, selfish ambition, and arrogance. Such people do not operate in your best interest. Some engage immoral and illegal trade while trying to convince you that their products virtually guarantee you astronomical annual returns while their illegal actions and investment churning eat into your investments leaving you with nothing or far less than you gave them to manage.

You avoid these types by:

1. Consistently praying to the Lord about your finances and about helping you make the right choices in every area of your life and every situation you encounter.

2. Reading the scriptures daily and internalizing what it has to say about money management and the traits of false prophets.

3. Fellowshipping weekly with the saints and finding out which ones are good stewards of the possessions God entrusts to them and asking them to give you insight into the methods they use to manage money well and why they do so.

4. Reading books and articles that educate you on how to manage your finances and that share the scams and poor financial decisions running rampant today.

5. Praying more that the Lord help you not fall to temptation in the area of greed, covetousness, envy, or striving for money, position, or anything that is outside His will for you or His saints.

When you adhere to these practices you will find that God’s wisdom to prosper is available to you in a way that keeps you away from trouble and that keeps you in a position to refuse to engage trouble and helps you grow to bless your family and many other people.

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Jeremiah 28:15-17, Ezekiel 13:22-23, Luke 20:45-47, Hebrews 2:1-3, 2Peter 2:1-9

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MoneyWalk 199: From Failure To Success

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When you are about Father God’s business, He doesn’t count previous choices as failures, no matter how they work out, as long as they were made after seeking His counsel, not being disobedient to His counsel when He gives specific instruction, and from a heart to do His will.

All of us suffer what look like failures on our road to building greater personal, business, and ministry wealth. Many steps to success are called failures by men, but to God these setbacks and hardships are tools that strengthen us, build our endurance, and give us wisdom to make good choices down the road.

He counts them as steps in your progression that mature you to handle more responsibility in His kingdom. Yet, failure and success are often inverted by people in this life. We call some people successful when they’re really failures in the Lord’s economy and we call some people failures when they’re really successful in the Lord’s economy. The difference lies in whether or not the person, throughout his/her endeavors, assigns all the glory to God for profits, revenues, assets, services, and products and seeks to serve others in a godly manner and faithfully / consistently supports gospel ministry.

When a person fails to hold, communicate, and progressively live according to biblical principles at home, in his/her employment, and entrepreneurial endeavors the person moves from success to failure in God’s eyes, no matter how big, famous, and powerful they become in the earth or how successful men consider them to be.

Be truly successful at personal, business, and ministry endeavors by always making your priority doing God’s will, upholding His standards in your life, seeking to give Him glory in all you do, and supporting the Great Commission by evangelizing the lost and being a disciple-maker.

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Deuteronomy 8:17, 1Samuel 30:8, Luke 12:16-21, Acts 7:41, James 5:1-6

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MoneyWalk 198: Let The Holy Spirit Guide You

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When managing your personal finances and starting, maintaining, and growing a business venture you must remember that God wants you to be blessed to receive the fullness of all that He wants for you and those you are to serve. The way you go about doing these things should be a testimony that gives glory to God, His will, and His way – a great encouragement and help to everyone He allows to cross your path so they can see that relationship with Him and adoption into His family is the most important priority in life and it is from this environment that His greatest blessings for them can flow to them.

It is the Holy Spirit’s business to impart wisdom to you through the Word of God and revelation to help you overcome and destroy every obstacle that stands in the way of fulfilling your destiny and being useful to God and other people. If you listen to and follow His leading, then you will find that your business, ministry, and profession will succeed in God’s eyes and will promote the good news of our LORD Jesus Christ and the salvation that only He can give.

You will be used mightily by the Holy Spirit to lead people to Christ when you treat people kindly, develop positive relationships, pay good employees good wages and benefits for the work they do helping you manage the portion of God’s estate entrusted to your stewardship, and live before them in every area as an example of a person sanctified by God.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you cannot prosper living God’s way according to the Holy Spirit’s guidance confirmed by biblical principle. God’s word says you can, therefore the matter is forever settled! There is no profit in gaining the whole world yet losing your soul.

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Luke 24:49, Acts 1:8, Ephesians 3:16-21, Jude 1:20-25

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MoneyWalk 197: Be A Good Samaritan

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

When you take advantage of a person who is suffering financially you are not being a witness of God’s goodness. When someone is hurting and you fiercely push him to sell you possessions he desperately needs for pennies on the dollar, you must ask yourself whether you could have been a better witness by refusing to purchase items that are necessary for his day to day living or by providing temporary help that leads him out of the ditch.

It is a different matter when he decides, without your pressure, that he needs to sell material goods in order to be a good steward and to financially care for the higher priorities according to God’s design for life. Let the person make the decision that things of value need to be sold instead of putting any pressure on him. In this instance, you refuse to allow envy and covetousness to take root as you look at his bad financial situation. Buying his unnecessary material goods in this scenario help you maintain pure intentions and could help him obtain money to pay for products and services that are necessary.

If he only has items of value necessary for life and godliness, then it is best to act as a Good Samaritan gifting him what you can, rather than seeking to make your life more comfortable and pleasurable by taking his necessities through purchases and loans / usury interest that you are well aware he is unlikely to be able to pay all the while thinking this scenario will give cover to your evil designs to take what God has given him to steward.

No doubt you shouldn’t purchase products and services from him that are sinful in nature or that lead to sinful activities. It is not Christ-like to purchase anything that leads to the undermining of gospel preaching and teaching at home and around the world. Finally, you should not purchase anything that will take you or anyone else away from a regularity of daily bible reading, prayer, and weekly fellowship with the saints.

For example, if you know that he has a set of collectible magazines that would fetch a hefty price in the market yet contain ungodly themes and lifestyle encouragements, then you need to fore go that purchase no matter how much it seems the money could help him. Unless of course you will immediately buy, shred, and throw them away so that you and no one else will ever be negatively affected or cursed by them.

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Nehemiah 5:7-12, Proverbs 16:2-5, Luke 10:25-37, 1Corinthians 8:9, James 4:17, 5:1-6

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