Category Archives: Finances
Expect God To Multiply
‘Jesus took the five loaves and two fish… and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread to the disciples… and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftover bread and fish’ Mark 6:41&43
The final thing we have to do to prepare for a miracle is expect God to multiply it. We must expect God to multiply our sacrificial seed – we must expect a miracle. So when you give what you are giving, expect a two-fold miracle. Firstly, expect a miracle for us as a church based on your lunch box – on your seed. Secondly, expect a miracle for yourself, for the land that you are believing God for. Like we said previously, land for you could represent fruitfulness, business, health, or education. Expect multiplication in the area you desire Read the rest of this entry
Error To Avoid I
‘This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God’ Luke 12:21
‘But God said to him, You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ In learning from the man in the parable Jesus told, the next step to growing financial roots is do not love wealth. Don’t love money. The Bible says that ‘the love of money Read the rest of this entry
Distribute Wealth
‘And I’ll say to myself, You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry’ Luke 12:19.
A lot of people are quick to lay claims to the money that God has provided – ‘it is my money I can spend it the way I want’. Really? If you insist, go ahead and spend it but you cannot determine what God will do next. So you better spend it wisely. The man in the parable that Jesus told [Luke 12:16-21] decided that Read the rest of this entry
Grow and Distribute Wealth
‘Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain’ Luke 12:18.
‘The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest’ Luke 12:16. The next step in growing financial roots is to grow wealth. Generate, retain, and then grow wealth. Learn and practice investment strategies in order to grow wealth. If at the beginning of the year you had marked ‘X’ as your growing Read the rest of this entry
Retain Wealth
‘He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ Luke 12:17.
The next step to growing financial roots is to retain wealth. What is the point of generating what you are unable to retain. In fact it is a terrible thing to generate wealth and watch it disappear. God says ‘when you dishonor Me, I will put holes in your bags’. In other words if such a person tries to store Read the rest of this entry
Generate Wealth
‘And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest’Luke 12:16 [NIV].
Read Luke 12:16-21[NIV]. ‘This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God’. From this passage it is clear that Jesus is not beating about the bush. Jesus is saying the financial future of the person that is amassing wealth and is poor towards God is one where they are Read the rest of this entry
Growing Financial Roots
‘Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.’ Col.2:7
A tree is as established as its roots. If the roots of a tree are not holding it firmly in the ground, the tree cannot be established for long. ‘And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness’ Col.2:6-7. It is in following Jesus continuously that you are Read the rest of this entry
