Money With a Mission by Leroy Thompson

Author:Leroy Thompson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Christian Life, Finance, Institutions & Organizations, Personal, money, Religious Aspects, Christianity, Religion, Personal Finance, Money & Monetary Policy, Biblical Teaching, General, Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781577943457
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 2000-10-31T22:00:00+00:00

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Our Financial Covenant

God wants you to have money, and there is a reason why He wants you to have it. God has a financial covenant for His people, but they have to get past Satan's lies, human reasoning, wrong teaching and the traditions of men in order to get in on it. Religious teaching has said that Christians shouldn't have money; they should be broke. Christians have been held back thinking about that rich young ruler (Mark 10:17-31), the rich farmer (Luke 12:16-21), and the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31).

These Christians remembered that Jesus said that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25), and they've been afraid of riches. (It's true that it is easier for a camel to get down and inch its way through an eye of a needle—a small gateway used in certain fortified cities years ago—than it is for a man who is trusting in uncertain riches to turn his trust over to God. That's what this verse is talking about.)

Many dedicated, well-meaning Christians believe preachers who misquote 1 Timothy 6:10, saying, "Money is the root of all evil," without even looking up the verse. They have maintained a position of avoiding the subject of prosperity, and some have even taken vows of poverty. They've wanted to do the right thing, but they've been misled. They've said, "I don't want to go any further. I'm satisfied where I am. The Lord will take care of me." But they haven't understood the reason God wants them to have money.

There is Kingdom business to be taken care of, and it is the Church's responsibility to take care of it. It's a Christian mission, and it's going to take Christians' money to carry it out. So Christians need to find out how to tap in to God's financial covenant and become recipients of what He wants them to have. That covenant made it possible for every believer to carry an anointing to be prosperous with a mission.

As I said, God has a financial covenant for His people. But the world has a covenant too. You see, anything that God does, Satan will try to duplicate or counterfeit. And he is the god of this world system. (2 Cor. 4:4.) But the world's covenant is designed to break you and make you a driven, nervous wreck, clamoring for more money. And the world is in on the lie that Christians should be satisfied being broke. The world has had Christians thinking that sinners should be spending millions on bars, dance-halls, and high-rise casinos while Christians should barely be getting by in their worn-down church buildings barely able to pay the light bill.

In order to tap in to God's financial covenant, Christians have to be willing to be taught scripturally and to change their minds if their thinking doesn't line up with the truth of God's Word.

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