About Us Doctrinal Beliefs Church Team Women Ministries Youth Ministries Health Ministries Financial Ministries Other Churches Services Links Worship Times Contacts Events
Depending on the type of church one is brought up in, these types of beliefs
are conditioned into the mindset of the congregation, thus understanding
wealth, much less maintaining it, can prove much harder for the Christian
than the average person.
Our beliefs are what shape our outcome in life. If you want to become
wealthy and prosperous you first have to change the way you think about
money. To see it for what it is, a tool! A means to an end! And understand
that God wants us to not only be wealthy but abundantly wealthy! In all
things: love, health and wealth! He wants to bless us richly with his
treasures, but first we have to give him something to work with. What do I
mean by this? Well read the following text – a viral email that was sent out
at Christmas, to understand.
|
A man found himself in terrible financial difficulties. He is so desperate that for the first time in his life he gets down on his knees and prays to God for help. 'Dear God, I desperately need your help. I have no money to spend on Christmas presents for my family. Could you possibly arrange it so that I win the Lottery?' The lottery draw is held, but he wins nothing. He sends another prayer to God. 'My business has gone bust and if I don't get some money soon I'll lose my car and my Christmas will be will be very difficult. Please fix things so I win the lottery.' Lottery night comes, but he's unlucky. So he prays to God again. 'Please God, I've lost my car and now they're trying to take my house. Please help me to win the Lottery or our Christmas will be ruined.' Come lottery night, he again fails to win anything. 'Undeterred, be prays to God again. 'I am now a bankrupt, my house has been repossessed by the finance company and so has my car. We are now living on the street, but all I need to get my life back together and perhaps enjoy some kind of Christmas is to win the lottery.' Suddenly there's a flash of brilliant life as the heavens open and the man is confronted by the very voice of God himself. 'Hey, do me a favour will you, buy a ticket.' |
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the
other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot
serve God and mammon” Matthew 6, 24.
Now, there is no question here what Jesus said was correct because you
cannot serve two masters, but what I do question is how this passage has
been contextualised and portrayed. We all know we need money and that we
must work to earn it. God likes a diligent worker as stated in Proverbs,
13,4, but there is a difference between working smart and working hard! The
wealthy work smart rather than hard, which is why they are wealthy! They
make their money work hard for them rather than they work hard for it. By
being poor or choosing to have a ‘poverty’ mindset, and it is a choice; does
not mean we are not serving money. Because in spite of everything we say and
do, the importance we place on our monthly or weekly wage dictates how we
spend our time, our thoughts and our action. We basically schedule our whole
life around our wage, and by doing so, are we not serving money?
Page 2
