Either you will be yoked to blessing or
you will be yoked to curses. This truth
is applicable to all people whether they are Christians or not. The principal of applying this truth is
simple – the power of association will pick you up or cause you to fall.
Scripture reads; ‘Choose this day who
you will serve …’ As well as ‘a man can not serve two
masters.’
Many people claim to have given their
lives to the Lord, but still go on living for themselves - making each decision
they make being ruled by how much they have or have not.
Romans 12:2 says, ‘Do not be confirmed
to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.. .’
And in 2 Cor.
This transforming and coming out of the
world system is being taken out of sin and slavery into freedom spiritually,
financially and in every other area.
In Proverbs 22:7 we read ‘Because the
borrower is a slave to the lender...’
Debt is a yoke of slavery that binds us
and causes us not to act in obedience to God.
The number one reason that Christians
are not free today is because the spirit of mammon has control of them and
dictates to them when to bow and when to rise.
This restricts Christians and stops them from being obedient to the call
of God on their life. So often, I have
heard Christians say, ‘I will go as soon as I have sorted out my finances’ or
‘as soon as I am debt free, I will do what the Lord has called me to do.’
Do not make decisions based on money –
Make decisions based on what God says.
In the last 20 years, credit is more
accessible and debt is more evident. Credit
for believers is not from God. It is a snare of the devil to entrap Christians
and cause them to become immobile and unable to go into the entire world to
preach the good news of the Kingdom.
Nearly every retailer and wholesaler has credit facilities to allow you
to purchase items and pay later.
God’s principal is that you work first
and then pay. The spirit of mammon says,
‘enjoy the item now and pay later’.
The church is called to be the light of
the world. Christians say, ‘How can we
speak into adverse circumstances, if we are in debt ourselves like everyone
else’
We as Christians have a responsibility.
The responsibility is to call the things that are not as though they are and
then to put into practice what we speak.
There is a saying that goes like this ‘money talks’. In Matthew
C.S. Lewis said, ‘once
we miss a turn and start down the wrong road, it will never become the right
road. The only way we can get back on the right road is to go back to where we
missed that original turn.’
Go back and find out
what is your rightful inheritance and heritage.
You are called to rule as a KING. The plan of God is that you rule over
what He has entrusted to you. The
realm of finances – the plan of God is to take His church from a minus bank
balance to out of debt and then to have more than enough.
The secret is:
Never
make a decision based on Money.
Only
make decisions based on obedience to God’s Word.
There are essentially three principals
of obedience regarding finances.
God does not need your
money, your vehicle, your house, your clothing or your food. God wants you heart.
Eccl. 4:8 ‘The eye is never
satisfied with riches....’
Eccl.
Isaac Newton said that the law of
physics is that energy is never destroyed, it simply changes form. The same is
true for wealth. Wealth is never
destroyed. It only changes form and
changes ownership. Eg. The great depression: ‘people lost great wealth, while
some people who where not slaves to debt gained great wealth from those who
over extended themselves with debt.’
We are heading for a greater economic
collapse than that of the great depression or that of the Asian flu crisis. Most
Christians in the church are in so much debt, that they can not respond to the
call of God and when the next economic crisis hits us we will be in a worse
place than people where during the great depression.
We need to change the negative situation
to a positive situation and to do this we need a strategy from God. In 2 Kings 4:
the we read that the wife of a deceased servant to Elisha the prophet, cried out. ‘Your servant my husband is
dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to
take my two boys as his slaves.’
So Elsha
responds ‘What can I do.., and what do you have in your house?’ She replies’ nothing except a little oil.’
The principal here is ‘TRADE SECRETS’
There are two points of this principal;
FLOWING WEALTH :
To have wealth flow through you:
·
You
need to do it with a joyful heart.
·
You
need to do it unto the Lord.
·
You
need to do it according to your faith.
GAINING WEALTH:
To have wealth come to you:
(You cannot give what you do not have)
·
You
need to gather some empty vessels.
·
Pour
what you have into the lives of empty vessels.
·
Close
the doors to unbelief and create some wealth.
·
Sell
the oil, and make enough to pay the debt and live on the rest.
·
She
had to become a business person – ‘God will give you the ability to generate
wealth with the work of your hands’
What is your trade secret?
What do you have in your hand?
Most people who are in need say ‘I don’t
have anything’ -
Look at what you have. What is
your talent? Now let it work for you.
The principal of the Word of God
is for you to succeed in being a good steward with the talents He has given to
you and grow in your wealth so that you can be a giver in the
Now write out these desires and make
them clear to read and see.
Submit these desires to God, as plans
for your life (Proverbs 16;3) and watch all your plans
succeed.
The primary principal is to seek the
GOD WANTS TO TAKE YOU TO THE