MoneyWalk 226: Using Wisdom

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

In order to reverse your negative financial condition you must use wisdom to manage money. True wisdom only comes from God and has been relayed to us via the bible. It contains the only principles that can truly prosper you.

When you commit your ways to God and desire to know His will, He illuminates bible verses showing principles that will positively change your life when you utilize them. He helps you understand the blessings and rewards that result from rightly applying them and the ultimate consequences of not doing so.

Knowledge is receiving information, understanding is grasping the meaning of the information, and wisdom is walking the pathway that is in accordance with God’s will. When these elements are working properly knowledge fuels understanding and it gives you the ability to walk in wisdom. It is always necessary to listen to the Holy Spirit because in some situations He may give direct revelation to make decisions when knowledge or understanding is lacking. That which you receive as revelation should never conflict with scriptural principles.

Search the bible for godly instructions and principles, consult with holy servants of God who can help you understand His will, spend time in prayer, and take appropriate action by faith. Then, you will know when and what God is speaking, you’ll be able to walk in wisdom to alleviate current life and financial problems, and you’ll overcome obstacles to godly success.

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Psalms 111:10, Proverbs 15:33, 16:9, Luke 16:10-13, Ephesians 5:15-17, 6:13-18

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MoneyWalk 225: Financial Hope

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

The only real hope a person can have must be in Jesus Christ. He is the only way by which we can be saved and gain entry to Father God. Relationship with Him saves you from eternal wrath and damnation and helps you mature and be sanctified for greater use by Him while you’re on earth as a means for being a blessing to other people, leading them to Him, and helping usher them into the same eternal life and heavenly home that He provides you.

You appropriate that hope when you declare Him your Savior and LORD accepting the gift of death by crucifixion by which His blood was shed that you might choose life and not eternal death. The hope is made real by His resurrection from the dead as the firstborn of many brethren (everyone who believes in Him). At the point you first believe, you know you’ll see your redeemer face to face at the Judgment Seat of Christ and spend eternity with Him, whereas all those that refuse to believe in Him will see Him face to face at the Great White Throne Judgment and receive according to His love what their actions showed they desired – eternal damnation with torment.

Your believing spirit desires to help your friends and family be born again in Christ and discipled, so they can also receive an eternal inheritance. When they freely accept Jesus, they live in this hope and there is no chasm that separates them like heaven’s citizens are separated from hell’s inhabitants.

Naturally speaking, everyone hopes to avoid catastrophes and to have all their financial needs and some of their desires met. Your natural hope can be experienced but with some trials, tribulations, and suffering along the way. However, these obstacles strengthen your faith, which comes from hope in Christ, in order to make you patient by trusting in God for what you can’t positively change or influence and by waiting on Him (consistently taking the actions you know to be good according to His Word) to bring forth the perfect work He desires in you.

You will shortly see what you hope for when you put biblical principles such as tithing, planning, budgeting, debt-free living, and saving into action. Your disposable income and net worth will increase much sooner than you ever thought possible and this will allow you to greatly support Kingdom ministry and take care of all your family obligations.

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Psalm 71:5-6, Proverbs 14:32, Colossians 1:3-6, Hebrews 11:1-2, 1John 3:2-3

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MoneyWalk 224: Proper Balancing

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

People who are in good financial shape know at all times how much money they can spend without running over their spendable assets and they refuse to purchase items that cost near that amount in order to stay in sound financial shape. They learn not to care what other people think, not to try to impress other people, and that they cannot produce long-term happiness via purchasing material things their income and assets cannot handle at the current time. They understand that long-term and eternal peace and joy come only in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and this allows them to enjoy their lives no matter what material things and experiences they may or may not have.

In order to have a healthy financial life, you must be diligent in balancing your accounts (including checkbooks). Many people aren't in good financial shape because they are not diligent at immediately recording checks written and withdrawals from their checkbook balances. Also, they do not balance their checkbook monthly. These negative habits lead to overspending and unnecessary charges for bounced checks.

You cannot truly know what you have to spend unless you know what is in your accounts and thus you will most likely overspend available money because you’ll only remember the few deposits that were put in your accounts and not the many withdrawals taken. Most checks are cashed days after they're written which means a check written at an earlier date may eat into your perceived balance leaving less actual money that you can spend. In addition, people are putting more charges on credit cards that ultimately must be paid by what is in their checking account or else they will go unpaid.

You will not recognize this dilemma and thus will get yourself into financial bondage if you are not faithful in recording deposits (including checks written) and withdrawals and make sure you don’t put on credit cards anywhere near the liquid assets you have available to be able to pay the charge in full when it is due. If you don’t balance your checkbook monthly and record entries immediately and keep watch over your accounts and spending, you won’t catch inevitable banking mistakes before they cost you added fees, money that could be used to build wealth and spread the gospel, and excruciating financial headaches.

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Proverbs 21:20, Proverbs 27:23-24, Habakkuk 2:2-4, Luke 14:28-32, Luke 16:10-12

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MoneyWalk 223: Managing By Love

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

The essential part of being a disciple of Jesus Christ is love for God, brothers and sisters in Christ, and your fellow man. To come into this love, you must believe with all of your heart and mind that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that you should not perish but have everlasting life.

The fact of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection to life everlasting in order to take away your sins, when you believe in Him, is your reminder that God loves you immensely and desires that you be close to Him even though you deserve eternal damnation based on your fleshly sin nature and the specific sins you've committed throughout your life.

He activated the events necessary for you to secure eternal life and greatly succeed in your calling on earth without having to utilize the principles, motives, and processes of the dark side. Faith in Christ enables you to forsake sinful, worldly ways of living through a continual maturity process that is guided by the Holy Spirit. If you don’t manage your life, including your finances, in the ways that God instructed in the bible, you risk the possibility that you may fall away from God by following the designs of man or satan thereby losing the inheritance you previously gained.

Love for Christ should move you to pray daily, read scripture daily to hide them in your heart, and fellowship with other believers regularly so you can move on to deeper fellowship with Him in order to fulfill your purpose and ministry calling, which includes evangelizing the lost that don’t know Him and helping others mature in the faith.

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Deuteronomy 7:13, Proverbs 8:20-21, John 14:21, and Romans 13:7-8

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MoneyWalk 222: The Business Of Purpose

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

When faith in the Lord does not guide you then you misunderstand your sole purpose for being (having intimate relationship with Him) and veer away from the use of your vocation as a means to worship Him and be a blessing to other people.

Faith is more than just a word and it must be quantified and displayed in a personal intimate relationship with Jesus Christ that leads you to live according to His moral plan laid out in the bible. It should not be guided by commendations that you receive or desire from other people. Instead it must be guided by doing and saying those things that scripture instructs in conjunction with the Holy Spirit’s leading.

Sometimes people will like your moral standards and how they guide your life and sometimes they won't. Some will say you are wise or intelligent and some may say you are ignorant or stupid. Nevertheless, you should choose to march on in good works produced by faith knowing that man is never wiser than God.

Many stories in scripture show that people can become wealthy when their guiding principles come from faith in Christ. His providence and the choices He allows you to make point you to a variety of jobs, career, and entrepreneurial undertakings (including those that are ministry and mission based). It is your responsibility to engage these employments in a Christ-like manner free from greed, narcissism, oppression, and other ungodly heart conditions. Be more interested in pursuing His specific purpose for your life via good stewardship than in obtaining wealth to lavish upon yourself.

Many people have prospered immensely in their personal and business lives when applying faith in Jesus Christ to their work, business, and money management practices. Everyone should be talking and living by faith, no matter what their business, employment position, or calling because it is the will of God that we produce godly works and avoid ungodly works (even the very appearance of evil). Only then will your work glorify God with fruit that remains as a beacon for others to see and engage relationship with the one and only Savior and LORD, Jesus Christ.

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Mark 11:22-24, Romans 4:16-25, Hebrews 11:6-10, James 2:17-24

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MoneyWalk 221: Faith In Business

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

All businesses are started by faith because "faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen." A person starts a business believing that there is revenue out in the world waiting to come to him. He cannot see it but he hopes for it and then obeys his belief by working to find a product or service that he can offer to other people that will cause them to give their money in exchange for his product or service.

This level of faith can produce great earthly abundance for some people, but it does not lead to eternal life. Faith in Jesus Christ alone leads to right standing before Father God enabling you to inherit an everlasting home in Heaven. Then, His will and way via biblical instruction should be the guiding principles for you when you start a business or if you already have a business (lucrative or not).

When it's not, you will go outside biblically moral boundaries to produce earthly wealth or some other eternally meaningless, short-lived satisfaction. True faith in God and the integrity that it produces in Christians is a vital means by which we use our business resources to support the preaching of the gospel in our community and throughout the world to lead others to Jesus Christ so they can inherit eternal life. It does not mean that we do not also donate time and money to other meaningful charity work, yet each true believer wants everyone to have this precious eternal inheritance and will make sure that funding of the gospel is his / her number one priority.

Thus, we do all we can to present the truth to people without forcing them to accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Force is not His way of operating but persistence, patience, establishing His standards in your life and business, and willingness to be a mouthpiece for Him are definitely His way of doing things. It's very important that your faith be expressed in your personal and business endeavors in a way that produces good fruit.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8-11, Romans 12:10-13, Hebrews 11:1-2, James 5:1-8

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MoneyWalk 220: The Bible Way

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Scripture identifies that people with faith in the Lord give a tithe of their income in order to help spread the gospel of Jesus Christ within their own community and around the world. In addition, through employing this biblical principle you will:

• Help fulfill the Great Commission given to believers.

• Honor God by being a good steward (manager) of the possessions He gives you.

• Show that His will is the first and main priority of your life.

• Show where your heart is truly located (in the world or in God).

• Allow supernatural reward, protection, and blessing into your life on a continual basis.

Because tithing is percentage based (10% of increase) and not based on a denomination of money, it is inherently fair to everyone because every believer gives the same proportion of income to the church for ministry work, regardless of their level of income. A person with no income would tithe $0, whereas a person who earns or receives $100,000 annually would tithe $10,000, a person who earns or receives $1,000,000 per year would tithe $100,000, etc.

The story of Abraham told in both Old and New Testament passages example for us how great people of faith tithe, thus showing the world around them that Jesus Christ is LORD over all their life including their finances.

Some people argue that we live in the dispensation of grace and not under the law and therefore God gives us no commands to live by and especially not tithing. However this argument cannot be correct because the Great Commission in the bible says that we must teach other people all that God commanded. Other letters to the saints identify commands in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to refrain from or to take certain actions.

Many Old Testament laws were done away with, but those things are clearly identified in the New Testament or never mentioned in it. Tithing is mentioned in the Gospels as something we ought to do as a complement to justice, mercy, and having faith. Also, the writer of Hebrews makes it clear that we tithe to the One of whom it is witnessed that He lives (that can be none other than Jesus Christ) and that He receives our tithe in Heaven though we bring it on earth to His appointed authorities.

Jesus didn't condemn the law rather He fulfilled it by doing away with the need for us to perform works to gain entry into His presence and Heaven but also by identifying a few commands as works of faith. His living in us by the Holy Spirit gives us all the power and wherewithal we need to obey His commandments when we otherwise would not be able to do so by human volition.

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Genesis 14:20, Malachi 3:8-12, Matthew 23:23, Hebrews 7:8

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MoneyWalk 219: Change So You Go In The Right Direction

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

Just like we must utilize biblical money management principles in order to fulfill God's will for the use of our resources in order to bypass financial tragedies that could otherwise occur in our lives, we must also utilize biblical principles in other areas of our lives to:

*Bypass tragedies that could occur.

*Have an added measure of God's protection on our lives.

*Present us with the experience of fruitfulness we need to rid ourselves of fear and worry that we might not prosper doing things God’s way.

When you have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, your endeavors to discipline and control your appetites and actions will be Holy Spirit influenced, guided, and empowered. Only then can you truly fulfill the perfect will of God in the earth and build treasure in Heaven.

Some people are currently confused, believing they can do a good work or two on one hand yet continue ungodly practices on the other hand without receiving the consequences of the ungodly practices. There is a point in time when the corruption of people becomes so bad (via engaging fornication, sexual immorality, pornography, crime, divorce, lackadaisical child rearing, and greed) that God's wrath against sinfulness is directly poured down upon that person, community, or nation.

Each person should repent, pray, and use self-discipline to engage lifestyle activities that will eliminate ungodly practices. Interfaith prayers, philosophies, and religious activities will not bring about such change because you cannot mix godliness with heathenism or else you compromise the truth of salvation, sanctification, godly fruitfulness, and eternal life in Jesus Christ alone. You should love other people groups (in the ways the bible instructs) but recognize only His truth will make you free.

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Matthew 28:18-20, John 3:16, Acts 4:12, Jude 1:3-4

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MoneyWalk 218: No Matter What Serve the Lord

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We are daily presented with situations in which we must determine who we will serve. Either we'll serve the purposes of God almighty or we'll serve satan. Many who serve satan don't believe they serve him. In fact, a good number of people think satan is a figment of man's imagination. Others think they're doing what they want. And others just don't believe God exists or that He has any specific requirements for how they should live and determine activities to engage.

Satan seeks to continually muddy the water by encouraging you to engage such beliefs because they help keep as many people as possible from having relationship with the LORD God by accepting Him as Savior and being obedient to His commands. Satan also wants to keep you from living the eternal life that God provides through Jesus Christ and he wants you to believe that there is no consequence to living in a worldly manner through satisfying your own lusts.

Per biblical warning, living according to the lust of the eyes, the flesh, and the pride of life has ushered many unrepentant people to hell. Today, many more people appear to be considering as moral lifestyles and activities that scripture says are immoral. They have moved into the lifestyle God said depraved man (those without Christ) would continually move – calling His truth a lie while heaping teachers unto themselves that tell them God could not have actually meant what He so clearly said through the scriptures.

The false belief systems that satan will continue to encourage will affect your salvation, sanctification, and finances if you allow it to influence you. When you buy into them you won't manage your life and money in a way that glorifies God, you won't give to support of ministry that works to add people to the ranks of the saved, and you won't support preaching / teaching that helps mature people to be sanctified mature members of the body of Christ.

No matter what serve the Lord, because you understand satan’s plan to influence you to be unfruitful and have you inherit the home of the damned (hell) in which he and the fallen angels will ultimately dwell for eternity. God is faithful no matter the situations you face and has only the best in mind for your life and eternity. Believing His design and taking action in the ways He instructed will bring everything you need to be productive and pleasing to Him and all others who have sound minds.

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Job 2:9-10, Proverbs 23:17-19, 2Timothy 2:3-4, Revelations 12:10-11

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MoneyWalk 217: Net Worth

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

The Lord does not measure you by the abundance of things or material riches you possess. He does not love a person more who has obtained more money or material things. However, He does require you to be good stewards over what He has given you. This requires that you use your God-given talent and perform a trade working for yourself or someone else (attorney, garbage collector, accountant, etc.).

Do not bury your talents and gifting in the ground or think you are someone because your net worth exceeds a certain dollar amount enabling you to shower yourself with opulence. Rather cultivate your gifts and leverage your financial net worth to help you be a blessing to other people.

Recognize that financial net worth has limited importance and it is only a great thing when it is leveraged to help spread the gospel throughout the earth and disciple people in Christ’s way. The scriptures identify godly men and women who accumulated great fortunes and ungodly men and women who accumulated great fortunes. God is not displeased at everyone who is rich or has increased net worth. He is displeased only when your accumulation has been obtained using wicked means to gain an end and/or when you are not rich in giving to support the work of Christ.

Since He allows different portions to be provided to different people, He is not looking for everyone to wind up with the same net worth rather He is looking for each of us to utilize biblical money management principles to order our financial steps throughout life. When we do this, we will bear much fruit, give abundantly, and grow our net-worth (accumulate assets) in a way that pleases the Father.

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Genesis 13:5-6, Job 1:1-3, 42:10-12, Acts 4:34-37, James 5:1-6

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