Read Proverbs 14:34 from your Bible
You still remember Job’s story? A man that feared God and eschewed evil; a perfect man. And this man was lifted by God, until he became the greatest man in all the east. What was his qualification? He stood strong on the foundation of God: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…” (Proverbs 9:10)
What is wisdom? “Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them” (Matthew 7:24).
Now, if the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, then the fear of God is the foundation that makes your acting on the Word of God to produce. Job’s testimony shows us that you don’t have to be crooked to get to the topmost top.
Nothing corrupts more than money in today’s world. People scheming to play out one another. When the Bible said, “Fight the good fight of faith”, it’s talking about money. You must fight financial corruption or you die in it!
The Bible says, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life” (1 Timothy 6:12). That means money is wrestling against eternal life in your life.
Read 1 Timothy 6:6-7 and 6:10-12 from your Bible
In other words, “I’m telling you, it’s a fight! It’s a battle!”
Financial corruption is a deadly attack from hell. Jesus once said to a man, “This is money, this is heaven, choose one”, and the man said, “I take money!” Or how else would you explain that account in Mark 10:17-25?
Jesus told him, “Sell all you have and give to the poor and you will have eternal life”. But he said, “No, I don’t want eternal life, I want eternal money!” He signed for suicide because of money.
Say with me, “Lord, keep me financially sane. Baptize me into your kind of integrity. Let not money corrupt my destiny. Lord, help me to retain this eternal life all the days of my life!”
There was a man called Jacob. This man sent his sons to Egypt to go and buy food. Joseph, finding out that they were his brothers, put back their money in their bags. The Bible tells us that Jacob sent back that money (Genesis 43:12).
Integrity guarantees plenty! All our covenant fathers — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — were people of integrity. Who then do you look like, playing pranks on account of money?
There’s nothing in money to warrant anybody dying and laying his life on the line for. Many people need to be delivered from the bondage of financial corruption. Such people, when they see money, their bodies begin to vibrate. Their nerves are no longer at rest.
You hide money from your wife, you hide money from your husband, for what?
Listen to me: you don’t love money to get it; you love God to be blessed! Lovers of money get lost, but lovers of God get increasingly blessed! Tomorrow is fantastic. All you need to do is live right today. If you live right today, you secure a future for yourself, and for generations coming after you.
Don’t sell off your destiny, no! It’s too dangerous to your soul. If you remember Judas and Gehazi, you won’t do that! To buy something in your office and tender a forged receipt, you’re already under the chains of financial corruption! Why must you tie your destiny down? You don’t have to!
shalom!
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Jesus is Lord
