#WordForTodayDevotional Saturday August 12, 2023 HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (5): GIVE Tell them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, to be generous givers, sharing with others.I Timothy 6:18 (NET) The only authentic way to disable the god of gold in your life is a lifestyle of giving. If you …
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HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (4): AVOID DEBT
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Friday August 11, 2023
HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (4): AVOID DEBT
The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Deuteronomy 28:12 (KJV)
Another way in which covetousness expresses itself is in debt. When you have a flair for owing, you’re a victim of covetousness. The moment you have a strong flair for owing, the god of gold has held you captive; because whatever your eyes see, and you long for and you don’t have the money for, you will want to borrow to get it. For instance, what is a man borrowing to ride a car for? The spirit of debt is a terrible one! The moment you start taking steps that are larger than your own strides, you’re cutting down your life without knowing. Let me tell you this: there’s always something available, which you can buy with the money you have in your hand. Whatever I don’t have now is not a need, it’s a want. And El-Shaddai is committed to meeting my needs according to His riches in glory by Yahushua HaMashiach, because I walk in the covenant (see Philippians. 4:19). There’s a size for your present status, all you need is to locate it and be satisfied with it. Discontentment brings down your speed and makes you defenceless. There’s no level where you are now that Yahweh has not made provisions for your size of food, house, clothes, etc, so you can be contented and live a happy life.
HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (3): BE FAITHFUL
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Thursday August 10, 2023
HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (3): BE FAITHFUL
Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
I Corinthians 4:2 (KJV)
Luke 16:9-12 says, “9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness? that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?” The number one way covetousness is expressed is through unfaithfulness. But unfaithfulness will ground you and make you unfruitful! Unfaithfulness means playing out the other person, with the aim of taking advantage of him/her. You don’t go places that way. From what the Lord Yahushua said, you’re bound to fail. He said, “that when ye fail…” Unfaithfulness guarantees failure in our covenant walk with the Father. For instance, you’re a driver, and you are given some money to fill the fuel tank, but you then buy half tank and collect receipt for a full tank, because you know no one is likely to check the car to see if that was actually what you bought. You have only succeeded in cutting down your life by half! You have signed to end a driver or even lose that job. You have cut down your blessings. Unfaithfulness is a trap of the devil to make you a failure; don’t let him, because Yahweh wants to promote you!
HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (2): LAY IT UP
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Wednesday August 9, 2023
HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (2): LAY IT UP
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Matthew 6:20 (KJV)
If you want to defeat the god of gold and the love for money in your life, you must lay up your treasures in heaven because your heart aligns in the direction of your treasure. Matthew 6:21 says, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” The key to your freedom from the trap of the god of gold is laying up your treasures in heaven. If you stack it up here, you will worship it. But if you lay it up there, it creates a future for you. When the El-Shaddai is out of your riches, it becomes risky. When Yahweh is kept out of your means, you’re already in a pit! When you’re not rich towards Adonai, no matter what you have, you’re a poor man! When you have no account with Yahweh, no matter where you get to on this earth, you’re on the floor! Oh yes! How do you lay it up? It is by giving. To conquer covetousness, you must be addicted to the giving life. I Timothy 6:17 says, “Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy?” The love of money is conquered when you are in good works, willing to distribute, ready to let go. Every form of giving helps you lay up treasures in heaven. I Timothy 6:19 says, “Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.” That is to say that when you give, you are laying up in store for yourself a good foundation against the time to come. Whatever you give, is stored in heaven and is withdrawable on earth in due time.
HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (1): CONTENTMENT
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Tuesday August 8, 2023
HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (1): CONTENTMENT
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Luke 12:15 (KJV)
The hold of the god of gold is very strong in this generation that it demands siting down to see how to be delivered from its grips. When you go after the god of gold, you become a fool. Beware of covetousness! I Timothy 6:3-8 says, “3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness? 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.” Contentment is the answer to covetousness. Until you are contented, you will remain covetous. Godliness with contentment will lead to the realms of great gain in life. Covetousness is ungodly. It is a sin! It corrupts godliness. But contentment will discipline and subdue it. Covetousness is one of the major ministries of the god of gold. Beloved, if you can arrest the god of gold, your beauty will emerge from heaven! The moment money is what determines your mood, you’re already enslaved by it! Look, if money is your reason for seeking Yahweh, you’ll be disappointed, because the scriptures cannot be broken.
MACHINERIES OF SIN (2): FINANCIAL CORRUPTION
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Monday August7, 2023
MACHINERIES OF SIN (2): FINANCIAL CORRUPTION
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Jeremiah 17:11 (KJV)
The god of gold is the chairman of the sin of financial corruption. This is the the crave for money no matter the means. This is the love of money in full manifestation. Financial corruption is getting money in ways that contradict the Word. Sin of financial corruption is a killer. It has the ability to terminate the life of the possessor. In the wilderness, the sin claimed the second largest number after the sin of immorality. This is the sin of making a god of gold. The sin of financial corruption is the outworking of the spirit of covetousness. It has the ability to dislodge your destiny to the grave. Covetousness bought Gehazi, Elisha’s servant leprosy when his destiny was to carry the double portion of Elisha’s anointing. 2 Kings 5:20-22 says, ‘20 ¶But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him. 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? 22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.” See what happened to him on his return from his covetous trip. 2 Kings 5:25-27 says, “ 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither. 26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? 27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.”
MACHINERIES OF SIN (1): IMMORALITY
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Sunday August 6, 2023
MACHINERIES OF SIN (1): IMMORALITY
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
I Corinthians 10:8 (KJV)
Sin is not just sin; it is in grades and categories. When Israel left Egypt and journeyed to the Promised Land, the highest number of people slain was through sexual immorality. Paul in his writing in our opening text told us that 23,000 men fell in one day because of fornication. From Bible records, this was the highest number of casualty throughout their journey from Egypt to Canaan. Immorality will take its toll among people this end-time also. It is, therefore, important to choose this day where you will be.
THE NATURE OF SIN (3): SIN IS DESTRUCTIVE
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Saturday August 5, 2023
THE NATURE OF SIN (3): SIN IS DESTRUCTIVE
The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Ezekiel 18:20 (KJV)
Do you know that sin is at the root of every trouble and calamity of man? There were no calamities before sin came. There were no sicknesses or accidents. Before sin came, man was absolutely secure—divine presence was his covering. He was heavenly, gorgeously dressed, but sin robbed him of all glory, and he started wearing leaves for clothing. As soon as sin came, all manner of calamities followed, because Proverbs 13:13 says, “Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed…” If there’s a “but” around your life now, it must go; otherwise it will send you packing, just like sin sent Adam packing from the Garden of Eden (see Genesis 3:21). Sin is a destroyer; it is a silent killer! See how it destroyed the destiny of Samson (see Judges 16). Samson was the strength of Israel in the Old Testament, but Satan trapped and destroyed him. He became a toy for the heathen. Though he killed more people at his death, he also died. A mighty treasure turned to a toy overnight, all because of sin.
THE NATURE OF SIN (2): OFFERS TEMPORAL PLEASURE
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Friday August 4, 2023
THE NATURE OF SIN (2): OFFERS TEMPORAL PLEASURE
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season?
Hebrews 11:25 (KJV)
Sin can be pleasurable. This is the hook that sin has used to trap many and to destroy their destinies. There is pleasure in using your pen in stealing from the government, then using the money to buy expensive ride and cruising around town. There is pleasure in taking a sexual partner to a five star hotel and having a full week of sexual experience. The pleasure of sin is the trap that sin uses to get its victims. This is also where the deception of sin comes in. It shows you pleasure and tells you that, that is all there is to it. But listen to our opening text again. The pleasures of sin are for a season. The Greek word translated ‘for a season’ is proskairos meaning ‘for the occasion only’. The pleasure of sin lasts for just the occasion only. But the consequences lasts into eternity. Why are you giving in for fleeting pleasures and exchanging it for eternity in hell? Why are you focused on the moment while ignoring the ultimate? The pleasures of sin are just for that occasion only which afterwards leaves you bitter and ultimately destroys one. It is your desire that draws you away to sin. James 1.14-15 says, “14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” This is what sin does not tell you that once it is finished, you are now a walking corpse. When the occasion of the pleasure is over, you are no longer the same person. You are now a corpse with hands and legs still going around.
THE NATURE OF SIN (1): SIN IS DECEPTIVE
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Thursday August 3, 2023
THE NATURE OF SIN (1): SIN IS DECEPTIVE
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day? lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 3:13 [KJV]
The problem with sin is the nature thereof. Sin is deceptive. It causes one to believe what is not true or to fail to believe what is true. Sin is death in disguise. But sin will make you believe that it is enjoyment and pleasures without consequences. Sin cause one to believe that there is nothing that will happen. But we have seen that sin kills. Sin destroys whatever it comes into contact with. Sin is at the root of destructions of marriage, business, career, education, etc. A man that drinks believes that he is enjoying but that is deception of sin because he is destroying his liver and vital organs with alcohol. A young woman that is jumping from one bed to another, from one hotel to another thinks that she is happening, without knowing that she is a walking corpse, according to the Bible (see I Timothy 5:6). In plain terms a person who is deceived by definition does not even know they are deceived! And this is the deadly effect of sin in our lives – sin so alters our thinking that we do not even realize we are deceived when we sin!
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