The better you steward your finances, the better you walk your walk.
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Recently, the concepts of the Government and Economy of God have become buzz words in certain Christian circles. Let’s try to dig past their trendy usages into a more thorough explanation of their meanings.
1. Please read the following:
Mt 2:2 [NIV]
2and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw [...]
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“Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
28″ ‘Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an [...]
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“Misfortune pursues the sinner, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous. A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous. A poor man’s field may produce abundant food, but injustice sweeps it away.” (Prov 13:21-23)
From what you’ve read so far about insurance, it [...]
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It shouldn’t surprise us to see that God wants us to prosper in every way. As He does this, we have the ability and means to be helpful in the Kingdom and Family of God.
It would be ridiculous to abandon our God-given talents in management or creative skills and let these lay dormant, when these [...]
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When God created Man, He created them in His Image and His Likeness. But this was designed to be a process, just as when you have a baby, he or she is born of you, with your image, and as he/she grows he takes on more and more of your likeness, but is not fully [...]
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Just as Jesus taught spiritual principles using the example of being responsible to multiply our wealth, He also taught us to watch out for spiritual traps – again using money as an example. In both cases, these principles apply to money and to other areas of life as well.
In the story we related Friday, neither [...]
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Yesterday we discussed the fact that being rich or poor wasn’t as an issue in whom Jesus taught – that what matters to Him is the heart of the particular person.
Let’s look at His interesting encounter with the rich, young ruler in Mark.
17As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to [...]
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We will start with Jesus’ own teachings, then look more closely at the teachings of the Apostles and draw some conclusions concerning prosperity in the Kingdom of God and in the world.
We will not study this topic exhaustively, but will try to get at the essence.
In Jesus’ time on earth, He never evaded the topic [...]
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Yesterday we discussed a prosperity which is attained by wisdom and insight into the secrets of God. Such prosperity can only be obtained with a pure and devout heart. Let us look at a Psalm to see how clearly this is taught in the OT.
Ps 1:1-3 [NASB95]
1How blessed is the man who does not walk [...]
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Yesterday we discussed Adam and Eve. The Garden that Adam and Eve walked in was very different from our backyard garden and very different from the state of this fallen world today. It is imperative for us to know that the Kingdom is not of this world. So the essence of prosperity is not about [...]
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