Can God trust you with his money?

[Kidron]

I wonder why it is, that a lot of believers assume....that if a person has money, it must be because its their God.
I think this type of foregone concluding, is very unfair, if not completely unfounded regarding most believers who are financially well off..
I dont mean to sound offensive, but are you someone God cant trust to give a million dollars?
And if he did, would you not use it for his glory according to his will?
Could you not be a channel whereby God flows financial blessing THROUGH to others?
And if you are, then why castigate any believer whom God wants to bless financially?
Isnt it up to God?
And does he not do it based on obedience, faith, and according to his will?

Joyce Meyers and James Robinson are 2 good examples.
Both are rich, and both spend millions on water wells in Africa, Hospitals in 3rd world areas, and in general just feeding the poor.
I think there is a lesson here., and that is........God has "riches in Glory" that are not just spiritual, and he is always looking for a faith channel to pour $$$$$ through.
Why cant you , reader, be such a channel?
Are you saying you will betray God if he gives you a lot of money?
Are you saying that if you cant handle it, then i cant<, or noone can who is born again?
That is fallacy, related to an opinion you have, if you have it.........and it just wrong-minded.

Look, you know what poverty does?
It traps you into a survival situation, and in this situation you are not able to give most of your time to God, because you are spending all your time trying to survive.
Listen, TIME is how you spend your Christianity........understand?
And if you have a life that is spent trying to survive, then most of your time is not being spent for God.
Thats a FACT.
So, having money frees you from having to spend all your time trying to feed yourself/family and pay BILLS, etc.
And in this, you have TIME for God that you will not have if you are poor.
Dont even try to argue a ridiculous argument about this.
Just face the fact that if you are poor, your life , your time, is going to be spent trying to survive, FIRST,,,,,and then any time you have left over, ...maybe God gets it.
But if you have MONEY, you time changes.
Understand?
So, you think about that........a bit.........before you worship poverty as some God sent invention to enhance "spirituality"..
He didnt send anything that robs your time from him.
Fact.

Its the same with the phony theology that rants... ......"well you know Kidron, sometimes God sends cancer to TEST his saints.".
Well............. HORSEFEATHERS. !!!!!!!!!!!
He does NOT send what Jesus came to Destroy in John 10:10.

I think its a dangerous and harmful theology to run around blaming sickness and poverty on The KING of Glory.
And Jesus is a King., and we are heirs of a King.
He didnt come out of that grave the same way he went into it.......did you notice?
He went into it a dead suffering lamb, but he AROSE a KING OF KINGS, and we are the HEIR of this King.,and this KING is INSIDE YOU< and you are "IN CHRIST".
Did you forget?

Did you ever notice that Jesus never made anyone sick according to your bible?
Did he ever cast a demon INTO a person.?
Is he now CHANGED since he started living INSIDE YOU?
Are you thinking?

Yet, Christians today run around today all over the world, all over Christian forms, loaded for bear with their self-righteous theology pack tied to their mouths attributing sickness and poverty to the King and his Father, instead of blaming the DEVIL who came to kill, steal, and destroy......John 10:10
And its our bible that says Jesus came to DESTROY these very.= works.......John 10:10
So, is the bible lying?........or are Christians deceived who blame God for the very works the bible says Jesus came to "Destroy".
Listen, did Jesus The Christ come to give you "Life and that more abundantly".... or did he come to test you with Cancer and a Brain tumor and how it feels to bury a couple of your children before they are 7 years old.?
You need to figure out who is for you and who is against you.
You need to figure that out asap.

I do believe that the Gospel of John says its blasphemy against the Holy Spirit > to attribute to the Holy Spirit the works of the Devil.<

So be very careful , reader, whom you blame for poverty and attribute sickness to in the life of a Born Again Child of God.



K

 

[Adullam]

God has no money. He doesn't need what we have invented.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Listen, TIME is how you spend your Christianity........understand?
And if you have a life that is spent trying to survive, then most of your time is not being spent for God.
Thats a FACT.

I got this monkey off my back a long time ago.

Christianity is about who you are when you're in line at the grocery store, sitting at a red light in traffic, cooking dinner, bathing the kids, raking the yard, doing a brake job on the family sedan, waiting for your ride to arrive...even when you're going to the bathroom (ladies remember to lift the seat for us gents, lol). Christianity is a full time job...if you understand what being a Christian is all about:

"...love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control..." (Galatians 5:22-23 NASB)

"...compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; 13 bearing with one another, ...forgiving each other..." (Colossians 3:12-13 NASB)

These qualities are a full time job and must be done in any and all circumstances of life, 24-7-365. And they are what really counts.

From there we each soberly assess our gift, and our measure of faith to walk in that gift (Romans 12:3-8) to help others be godly, obedient, Spirit-led Christians in their day-to-day lives, too. Who can in turn use their gift--and their faith to administer that gift--to help still another person be a Spirit-led fruit bearer for the kingdom of God.

I love the charasmatic movement in the church today (in it's purer form), but it does seem their focus on life in Christ is giftedness, and leading others into their giftedness, and not so much on being faithful, obedient people in character. It's just their particular spin on what so many in the church believe--that Christianity is all about the sacrifice of your service, with little to no emphasis on the obedience of character (the fruit of the Spirit).

 

[tim-from-pa]

Can God trust you with his money?

Good point. It only requires a minimum of 10% payback to show that He can trust you. :nod

 

[stovebolts]

Joyce Meyers aside, I agree with much of what you wrote. It reminded me of this story.

Luke 12:16-21 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

We are blessed to be a blessing to others. This is what disturbed God in the above parable, because God had abundently blessed this man, yet it was very real for people to go hungry while he simply built bigger barns. He did not bless others with what he himself had been blessed with.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Good point. It only requires a minimum of 10% payback to show that He can trust you. :nod

Jesus said he who can be trusted with little can be trusted with much.

I say it only takes a quarter that you know doesn't belong to you that shows if you can be trusted with much. Think about it.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

The key to being generous with your money? Care about people. Have the love of God in you. You hardly have to make yourself give when you have the love of God in you longing to help others with the blessings you yourself have received from God.

 

[Mike54321]

Why should you trust God with your money?

My Mom thinks whenever she sends a check off to Kenneth Copeland she's giving it to God.

I tell her that guy is an atheist and has a Gulf Stream 4 jet airplane and a 10 million dollar mansion and all his kids live in mansons, but she becomes really upset, she is almost always a very sweet, calm, smiling person, but when I tell her that, she turns red and that is about the only thing on earth that makes her that upset, when you try and tell her these people are phonies.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

My Mom thinks whenever she sends a check off to Kenneth Copeland she's giving it to God.

If her heart is right she probably is. It will be credited to her account. Just as the abuse of her gift will be credited to his account...if in fact that's what's happening.

But it would be nice if she could understand how wrong it is for a teacher to use the wealth people give you, because you told them that's how you yourself become wealthy, to show that God blesses those with money who believe he will do that.