FINANCIAL WISDOM FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING
ECCLESIASTES 8:1
Only the wise know what things really mean. Wisdom makes them smile and makes their frowns disappear.
Ecclesiastes 10:10
If your axe is blunt and you don't sharpen it, you have to work harder to use it. It is more sensible to plan ahead.
Understanding financial wisdom for successful living
THINGS TO NOTE:
1. Wisdom is the principle thing; It is the secret behind the making of principal people (Prov. 4:7)
2. Wisdom is a secret of wealth and
increase (1Kings 10:23-24; Ezek. 28:4-5)
3. Wisdom is a secret of lifting and
favour (Gen. 41:39-41; 1Sam. 18:15,5)
Financial Wisdom
A. Money is key to answers in life; Life can be full of
questions with the shortage of money (Eccl. 10:19)
B. Money is a determinant of the character
and ultimately the destiny of people (1Tim. 6:10)
C. Both the love of money and the lack of money
are situations of concern for life and for destiny (Matt. 6:24)
FACTS ABOUT MONEY:
1. Money management is clue to life management
How well a person can manage money without missing road determines how well he/she can manage his/her life and destiny without missing road
2. More impact can be created with the presence of money than with the absence of money
3. The presence of money does not guarantee abundance and the absence of money is not the reason for poverty
It is all about the mind-set
4. Habits sustain wealth and habits also sustain poverty
5. Money travels in the direction of wise managers of money and money avoids the way of unwise managers of the same (Matt.13:12)
6. Attitude towards money and actions with money can determine a person’s eternal destiny (1Tim. 6:10-18)
How your mind is regarding money and what you will do with money determines where you will end in eternity
DIVINE WISDOM WAYS OF DEALING WITH MONEY:
1. Never allow money to take the place of God in your life; don’t live for things, live for God (Matt. 6:24,33)
2. Possess vision for supernatural supplies; provision will travel in the direction of vision (Prov. 29:18)
Don’t live in survival mode; map put strategies of what you will do with money when God gives it to you
3. Focus on investment, not expenditure; focus not on how to spend money but how to multiply money (Luke 19:20-22)
God is an investor and He is investment-minded
4. Produce something; produce goods or services that your world will pay you for (Gen. 1:28)
Money is the reward you receive either for the production of goods or rendering of services
Don’t put yourself in the position where you are always buying goods/ receiving services from people and nobody is buying or collecting anything from you
5. Avoid get-rich-quick schemes (Prov. 13:11)
Whatever is too good to be true is probably not true
6. Own money but never allow money to own you
Use money and don’t allow money use you; send money and refuse to be sent by money
7. Obey the Covenant of supernatural supply (Gen. 8:22; 2Cor. 9:6-7)
8. Avoid the lifestyle of borrowing and indebtedness (Prov. 22:7; Deut. 15:6)
Borrowing is emptying the future into the present so that when the future arrives, it is empty
9. Build your business first; place impact ahead of comfort (Prov. 24:27)
Public impact is superior to personal comfort
Let investment be superior to enjoyment
10. Maintain financial integrity (Gen. 39:5-6)
You can be trusted by both God and men to the extent you can be entrusted
Financial integrity is doorway to financial authority
11. Don’t make money the basis of life’s decisions and actions; when you do that, you set up yourself for disaster (Matt. 7:12; Mark 12:30-31)
Love for God, love for man, righteousness and justice should be the basis of your decisions in life
Those who make decisions based on money, 99.9% of the time are making the wrong decisions
12. Invest in the areas of Divine direction, personal potentials, passion, affection or knowledge (2Chron. 26:10)
13. Avoid waste at all cost (John 6:11-13; Prov. 18:9)
Waste and wealth are mutually exclusive and diametrically opposed
14. Maintain a savings culture; don’t spend everything, put something aside no matter how little (Deut. 28:8; Prov. 21:20)
15. Be faithful; be reliable, dependable, consistent and constant (Prov. 28:20)
Be a man/woman of your words; wherever you find yourself, be consistent because your blessing is tied to your faithfulness
PRAYERS:
- Father, thank You for Your Word to me today; thank You for Your faithfulness upon this Commission these past 23 years. Father I ask, let nothing take Your place in my life. Take Your place in my life Lord, in Jesus’ Name
- Father we have come to say Thank You for all you have done for us as a ministry; we are grateful and we don’t take them for granted. All the miracles, healings, deliverances and breakthroughs we have experienced so far. To You be all the glory Lord in Jesus’ Name
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS:
- Any testimony that has ever happened in this commission since its inception that is a desire in your life shall be communicated to you
- The fullness of the mantle of this Commission shall answer in your life and destiny in Jesus’ Name
- Help from Above is coming for you in Jesus’ Name
- The same Help that brought Dunamis to this level is coming upon you today my
- From this day forward, I declare your path is shining
- I prophesy today the release of every gift, blessing and every release that God has in store for you is released now by the ministry of the angels
- Every arrow sent to you by the forces of darkness returns back to sender
-A positive news/exclamation of what God will do in your life will come from the mouths of people
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